IBM DB2 Alternatives

IBM DB2 is described as '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' and is a relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to IBM DB2 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best IBM DB2 alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like IBM DB2 are DBeaver, PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition and MongoDB.

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  1. 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
     
  2. Pigsty icon
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    A battery-included, local-first, open-source PostgreSQL RDS alternative.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. 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)
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  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

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. 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
     
  9. Slashbase icon
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    Slashbase is an open-source in-browser database IDE for your dev/data workflows. Use Slashbase to connect to any of your database, browse data and schema, write, run and save queries, create charts, right from your browser. Supports PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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