Microsoft SQL Server Alternatives

Microsoft SQL Server is described as 'SQL Server delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage your data by enabling you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents within the database' and is a popular relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Microsoft SQL Server alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Microsoft SQL Server are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MariaDB and MongoDB.

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  1. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. YDB icon
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    YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. dotConnect for MySQL is a high-performance ADO.NET data provider that grants simple access to MySQL and MariaDB databases when developing MySQL-based applications.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. FerretDB icon
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    FerretDB (formerly MangoDB) is an open-source proxy, which converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. SQLMachine is a freeware, safe, scalable and adequate performance client-server side architectural SQL DBMS. (Database Management System).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. CUBRID Database icon
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    CUBRID is a comprehensive GPL/BSD open source relational database management system highly optimized for Web Applications. CUBRID is being developed in C/C++. Includes native HA, online hot backup, and other features. JDBC, PHP, ODBC/.NET, Ruby & Python APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. NuoDB icon
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    NuoDB is a distributed database that can be deployed in any datacenter, in any cloud, anywhere, without the compromises inherent in other New SQL solutions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. Couchbase icon
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    Couchbase is the NoSQL database market share leader, with production deployments at AOL, Deutsche Post, NTT Docomo, Salesforce.com, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Zynga and hundreds of other organizations worldwide.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Apache HBase icon
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    HBase is an open source, non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem), providing...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
  11. Database .NET icon
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    Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Ingres icon
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    Ingres is the leading business open source database. Discover the New Economics of IT. Learn how to lower your TCO over a three-year period.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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