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DimensionMemory VaultSelf-hosted AI memory database with hybrid search, MCP tools, and a knowledge graph.ChEMBL MCP ServerUnofficial MCP server providing advanced access to the ChEMBL chemical database
FMRS56 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions12 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance11 / 2014 / 20
Documentation14 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience10 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Individual developers who want memory data fully self-hosted and never sent to the cloud
  • Users already comfortable operating PostgreSQL
  • People who want cross-session memory in Claude Desktop or Claude Code
  • Builders layering memory under their own AI tooling without maintaining a separate vector database (single instance)
  • Drug discovery and computational chemistry researchers
  • Bioinformatics teams needing ChEMBL data through AI assistants
  • Developers comfortable with Node.js or Docker
Not for
  • Organizations needing multi-user or multi-tenant team collaboration (v1.0 is single-instance; team features are planned PRO)
  • Users who want a zero-ops hosted service
  • Projects requiring multilingual entity extraction (NER is English-only)
  • Anyone unwilling to run and maintain PostgreSQL
  • Deployments expecting transport encryption to come from the server itself (you must add a reverse proxy or tunnel)
  • Production settings requiring official ChEMBL support (this is unofficial)
  • Users without a Node.js or Docker environment
  • General database tasks unrelated to ChEMBL
Required permissions
  • Read/write access to the PostgreSQL database (DB_USER needs read/write on the memory vault database)
  • The database password (DB_PASSWORD is a secret value)
  • In stdio mode, a local process that reads environment variables and connects to the database
  • When HTTP/SSE is enabled, a listening port plus bearer token validation on every request
  • The dashboard stores its bearer token in browser localStorage
  • Outbound network access to https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/api/data
  • Read-only access to public API data; no authentication credentials required
Risks and side effects
  • With stdio, database credentials sit in plaintext in the client config's env block
  • The HTTP/SSE transport has no transport encryption of its own; tokens travel in a header, so put TLS in front of it
  • Publishing the container port on 0.0.0.0 reaches the whole network
  • API_AUTH_ENABLED=false only opens the REST API (the MCP transport still returns 401) and is a local-development convenience only
  • Known knowledge-graph limits: no fuzzy entity matching (PostgreSQL and Postgres stay separate), no re-extraction on edit, and one name can appear as both a Person and a Project entity
  • Single-maintainer project — reviews and responses depend on the maintainer's available time
  • Unofficial project with license marked NOASSERTION (README claims MIT); verify licensing yourself
  • Data accuracy depends on the ChEMBL REST API and the server's parsing may contain defects
  • 30-second request timeouts may constrain large batch queries
  • README inconsistency on tool count (22 vs 27) raises documentation reliability concerns
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude CodeClaude Desktop
Tools627