everything vs archiledger

Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.

	everything by modelcontextprotocol	archiledger by thecookiezen
Stars	★ 85,748	★ 5
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Score	77	40
Official	✓	—
Categories	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther	AI / LLM ToolsKnowledge GraphDeveloper Tools
Language	TypeScript	Java
Last commit	this month	1 mo ago

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

archiledger · Summary

Archiledger is a graph-based MCP memory server with vector search capabilities for persistent AI knowledge storage.

everything · Use cases

Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

archiledger · Use cases

Personal AI assistant with persistent memory across conversations
Codebase analysis and documentation into structured knowledge graphs
AI applications requiring semantic search and relationship discovery

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

archiledger · Install

Installation

Prerequisites

Java 21 or higher
Maven

Building

mvn clean package

Running Low-Level MCP Server

Transient (In-Memory):

java -jar mcp/target/archiledger-server-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Persistent:

java -Dladybugdb.data-path=./archiledger.lbdb 
     -jar mcp/target/archiledger-server-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add to Claude Desktop config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archiledger": {
      "command": "java",
      "args": ["-jar", "mcp/target/archiledger-server-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"],
      "env": {
        "LADYBUGDB_DATA_PATH": "./archiledger.lbdb"
      }
    }
  }
}

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