IBM DB2 Alternatives

Apps similar to IBM DB2 include SQLite, which is free and open source. Other options are DBeaver, PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition and MongoDB. Relational Databases like IBM DB2 are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Discover insights with Google's fully managed BigQuery, allowing fast SQL queries on petabyte-scale data. Stream data in real-time, leveraging its columnar architecture, free initial 1 TB processing monthly, and robust security features without the complexity of infrastructure management.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  3. Pigsty icon
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    A battery-included, local-first, open-source PostgreSQL RDS alternative.

    20 Pigsty alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  4. ScratchDB icon
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    ScratchDB is a wrapper around Clickhouse that lets you input arbitrary JSON and perform analytical queries against it. It automatically creates tables and columns when new data is added.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. PgPad icon
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    A fully free and open-source (no “community edition”, premium plans, etc.) database manager.

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    • Mac
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  6. 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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph...

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. SlateDB icon
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    An embedded database built on object storage. Unlike traditional LSM-tree storage engines, SlateDB writes data to object storage to provide bottomless storage capacity, high durability, and easy replication.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  9. PlanetScale icon
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    The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. dbHarbor is more than just database management tool. It gives developers and database administrators one place to design, implement and test databases.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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