MySQL Community Edition AlternativesTop Relational Databases and other similar apps like MySQL Community Edition

MySQL Community Edition is described as 'Freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts' and is a very popular relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to MySQL Community Edition for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best MySQL Community Edition alternative is PostgreSQL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MySQL Community Edition are SQLite, MariaDB, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server.

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  1. PostgreSQL icon
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    PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

    79 PostgreSQL alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. SQLite icon
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    SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.

    74 SQLite alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. MariaDB icon
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    MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement of the MySQL® Database Server. It includes all major open source storage engines.

    57 MariaDB alternatives

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  4. MongoDB icon
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    MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need

    105 MongoDB alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
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  5. 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.

    69 Microsoft SQL Server alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. CockroachDB icon
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    Cockroach is a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability, hence the name.

    102 CockroachDB alternatives

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    • Free
    • Source Available

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. CouchDB icon
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    Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP / JSON API. It includes incremental map / reduce mechanics for queries and keeps data safe with an append-only datastore.

    77 CouchDB alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • BSD
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  8. 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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    • Mac
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  9. PlanetScale icon
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    The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Microsoft Azure
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  11. Vertica icon
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    Vertica is a grid-based, column-oriented database designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data and provide very fast query performance when used for data warehouses and other query-intensive applications.

    31 Vertica alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
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  12. SAP HANA icon
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    SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform for real-time business.

    It transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning, predictive, sentiment data processing on a single in-memory database so business can operate in real-time.

    49 SAP HANA alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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