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.
MariaDB Alternatives
MariaDB is described as 'Backward compatible, drop-in replacement of the MySQL® Database Server. It includes all major open source storage engines' and is a very popular relational database in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to MariaDB for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best MariaDB alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MariaDB are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server.
Alternatives list
A full-stack, syncing database that runs on both server and client. Pluggable storage (indexeddb, sqlite, durable objects), syncs over websockets, and works with your favorite framework (React, Solid, Vue, Svelte).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)

FerretDB (formerly MangoDB) is an open-source proxy, which converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
InterSystems IRIS is the most popular commercial alternative to MariaDB.
- InterSystems IRIS is Paid and Proprietary
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions.
Clustrix is the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud. With Clustrix, you can scale transaction throughput, run real-time analytics, and simplify operations.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted

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...
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online

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 (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Amazon Web Services

VoltDB is a blazingly fast NewSQL database system. It is specifically designed to run on modern scale-out architectures - fast, inexpensive servers connected via high-speed data networks.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Software as a Service (SaaS)


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CUBRID is a comprehensive GPL/BSD open source relational database management system highly optimized for Web Applications. CUBRID is being developed in C/C++. Includes native HA, online hot backup, and other features. JDBC, PHP, ODBC/.NET, Ruby & Python APIs.





















