PostgreSQL Alternatives

PostgreSQL is described as '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' and is a very popular relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PostgreSQL for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best PostgreSQL alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PostgreSQL are MySQL Community Edition, MariaDB, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server.

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  1. The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

    51 Apache Cassandra alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  2. Azure SQL icon
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    Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that use the SQL Server database engine in the Azure cloud. Azure SQL is built upon the familiar SQL Server engine, so you can migrate applications with ease and continue to use the tools, languages, and...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  3. 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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  4. Azure Cosmos DB is a NoSQL document database service designed from the ground up to natively support JSON and JavaScript directly inside the database engine. It’s the right solution for web and mobile applications when predictable throughput, low latency, and flexible query are...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. Citus gives you the Postgres you love, plus the superpower of distributed tables. 100% open source. Now with schema-based sharding in Citus 12.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. SurrealDB icon
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    With an SQL-style query language, real-time queries with highly-efficient related data retrieval, advanced security permissions for multi-tenant access, and support for performant analytical workloads, SurrealDB is the next generation serverless database.

    11 SurrealDB alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
     
  7. 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.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  8. StackGres icon
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    StackGres is a full-stack PostgreSQL distribution for Kubernetes, packed into an easy deployment unit. With a carefully selected and tuned set of surrounding PostgreSQL components.

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
    • PostgreSQL
     
  9. 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...

    60 Oracle Database alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. A complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. 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
     
  12. 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
     
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