MongoDB Alternatives

MongoDB is described as 'Document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need' and is a very popular relational database in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MongoDB for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best MongoDB alternative is PostgreSQL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MongoDB are SQLite, MySQL Community Edition, MariaDB and Redis.

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  1. TidesDB icon
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    TidesDB is a fast and efficient key value storage engine library written in C. The underlying data structure is based on a log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree).

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    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
     
  2. kvdb.io icon
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    A simple key-value store as a service designed for quick and easy integration into projects that need a globally accessible key-value database. Ideal for serverless apps, metrics collection, prototyping, and more.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3.  2 likes

    SnapJSON is a lightweight, open-source ORM for Node.js that uses simple JSON files as a datastore.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Node.JS
     
  4.  1 like

    This is a fork of Redis 7.2.4 following the announcement that Redis would switch to a non-free license.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. IBM DB2 icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. ScaleOut icon
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    ScaleOut Software's advanced in-memory data grid products help you meet a wide range of technical and business challenges. Whether you need a scalable storage solution for storing session-state or shopping carts on your ecommerce Web farm or you have to perform lightning...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Airsequel icon
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    Upload your CSV file or SQLite database and have a full fledged GraphQL API available in mere seconds. Now you can build applications faster than ever before!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. EJDB icon
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    EJDB 2.0 — Embeddable JSON Database engine C library. Simple XPath like query language (JQL). Websockets / Android / iOS / React Native / Flutter / Java / Dart / Node.js bindings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. RapidStash icon
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    RapidStash is a service for rapidly publishing sandbox APIs with just JSON. If you have an idea of what kind of data you want to send and receive but aren’t yet ready to build a backend, just throw some example data in a “stash” and interact with it there.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. UnQLite icon
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    UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. XAP icon
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    XAP is an in-memory computing software platform that processes all your data & applications in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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