MariaDB Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to MariaDB for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to MariaDB and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to MariaDB are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server.

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  1. 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.

    72 SQLite alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. 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.

    75 PostgreSQL alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. MySQL Community Edition is a 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.

    67 MySQL Community Edition alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
     
  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

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    • Online
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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.

    67 Microsoft SQL Server alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. 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.

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

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    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  8. Percona Server is an enhanced, drop-in MySQL® replacement which has been downloaded more than 1,400,000 times. Percona Server is based on the Percona XtraDB Storage Engine, an enhanced version of the InnoDB storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. ArangoDB icon
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    ArangoDB database is an open-source NoSQL solution with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values.

    55 ArangoDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. 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.

    71 IBM DB2 alternatives

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    • Freemium
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  11. 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.

    22 InterSystems IRIS alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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

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