Amazon Redshift Alternatives for Linux

Amazon Redshift is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux 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 Amazon Redshift and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Amazon Redshift are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MariaDB and MongoDB.

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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
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    • 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
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    • 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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  4. 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.

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    • Windows
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  5. 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

    101 MongoDB alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
     
  6. 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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  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.

    74 CouchDB alternatives

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  8. 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
     
  9. Firebird icon
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    Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

    48 Firebird alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. 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

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  11. 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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  12. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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