IBM DB2 Alternatives

IBM DB2 is described as 'DB2 offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform from Linux to z/OS. DB2 supports storing XML and relational data and offers SQL PL and PL/SQL procedural languages' and is a relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to IBM DB2 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best IBM DB2 alternative is DBeaver, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IBM DB2 are SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition and MongoDB.

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  1. Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.

    65 Amazon Redshift alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  2. Pigsty icon
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    A battery-included, local-first, open-source PostgreSQL RDS alternative.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  3. ScratchDB icon
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    ScratchDB is a wrapper around Clickhouse that lets you input arbitrary JSON and perform analytical queries against it. It automatically creates tables and columns when new data is added.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  4. PgPad icon
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    A fully free and open-source (no “community edition”, premium plans, etc.) database manager.

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    • Mac
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  5. Oracle Database icon
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    Oracle Database delivers industry leading performance, scalability, security and reliability on a choice of clustered or single-servers running Windows, Linux, and UNIX. It provides comprehensive features to easily manage the most demanding transaction processing, business...

    62 Oracle Database alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  6. Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph...

    96 Titan Database alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  7. SlateDB icon
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    An embedded database built on object storage. Unlike traditional LSM-tree storage engines, SlateDB writes data to object storage to provide bottomless storage capacity, high durability, and easy replication.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  8. PlanetScale icon
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    The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. dbHarbor is more than just database management tool. It gives developers and database administrators one place to design, implement and test databases.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. Slashbase icon
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    Slashbase is an open-source in-browser database IDE for your dev/data workflows. Use Slashbase to connect to any of your database, browse data and schema, write, run and save queries, create charts, right from your browser. Supports PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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