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. TimesTen is a memory-optimized, relational database management system with persistence and recoverability. Originally designed and implemented at Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, California, TimesTen was spun out into a separate startup in 1996 and acquired by Oracle...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Persevere is designed to create applications with user interface implemented primarily on the client side and Persevere playing the role as an HTTP-based RESTful data provider.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. NCache icon
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    NCache is an Open Source in-memory distributed cache for .NET, Java, and Node.js. NCache provides an extremely fast and linearly scalable distributed cache that caches application data and reduces expensive database trips.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. Garnet icon
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    Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. TayzGrid icon
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    TayzGrid is an elastic in-memory data grid with a self-healing peer to peer dynamic data grid clustering architecture. TayzGrid is extremely fast and linearly scalable data grid and provides intelligent replication for data reliability without compromising on scalability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • JBoss
    • WebSphere Application Server
    • Oracle Weblogic Server
    • Apache Tomcat
     
  6. Move global variables and configurations from your code repository into a dropconfig, and you can now update them without deploying your code.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. HSQLDB icon
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    HSQLDB (Hyper Structured Query Language Database) is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92 and SQL:2008 standards. It offers a fast, small (around 1300 kilobytes in version 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Mimer SQL icon
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    Mimer SQL is an SQL-based relational database management system from the Swedish company Mimer Information Technology AB (formerly: Upright Database Technology AB), which has been developed and produced since the 1970s.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • Symbian S60
     
  9. Gel Data icon
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    Postgres is the endgame database. Gel supercharges it with a modern data model, graph queries, Auth & AI solutions, and much more.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PostgreSQL
    • Online
     
  10. dragonfly icon
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    Dragonfly is a lightning fast, in-memory data store built for heavy workloads running on modern cloud hardware. Dragonfly is 100% API compatible with Redis, Valkey, and Memcached, allowing for quick and seamless migrations that result in up to 25X better performance on half the...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Filesystem-backed document DBMS in Rust where every record is a Git-versionable JSON file with automatic cryptographic integrity for compliance-critical systems.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Mac
     
  12. JNSEDB is simple, persistable, fast and embeddable java nosql database dedicated to small applications. This database can be embedded to any java application without time wasting configuration. Add maven requirement and start using database.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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