Paid Microsoft SQL Server AlternativesTop Relational Databases and other similar apps like Microsoft SQL Server

The best paid alternative to Microsoft SQL Server is Azure SQL. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server and many of them is paid so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting paid alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server are Oracle Database, InterSystems IRIS, Vertica and SAP HANA.

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  1. Azure SQL icon
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    Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that use the SQL Server database engine in the Azure cloud. Azure SQL is built upon the familiar SQL Server engine, so you can migrate applications with ease and continue to use the tools, languages, and...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  2. 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...

    61 Oracle Database alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. Vertica icon
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    Vertica is a grid-based, column-oriented database designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data and provide very fast query performance when used for data warehouses and other query-intensive applications.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. SAP HANA icon
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    SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform for real-time business.

    It transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning, predictive, sentiment data processing on a single in-memory database so business can operate in real-time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. VistaDB icon
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    VistaDB is an embedded database engine for Visual Studio .Net developers (C# / VB.NET) with TSQL Procs, CLR procs, XCopy deployment, and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. TimesTen is a memory-optimized, relational database management system with persistence and recoverability. Originally designed and implemented at Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, California, TimesTen was spun out into a separate startup in 1996 and acquired by Oracle...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. NuoDB icon
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    NuoDB is a distributed database that can be deployed in any datacenter, in any cloud, anywhere, without the compromises inherent in other New SQL solutions.

    49 NuoDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  10. Ingres icon
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    Ingres is the leading business open source database. Discover the New Economics of IT. Learn how to lower your TCO over a three-year period.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Actian PSQL combines a NoSQL transactional engine and a SQL relational engine to deliver a zero-DBA database platform for business applications.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. MarkLogic icon
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    MarkLogic is the only Enterprise NoSQL database, bringing all the features you need into one unified system: a document-centric, schema-agnostic, structure-aware, clustered, transactional, secure, database server with built-in search and a full suite of application services.

    55 MarkLogic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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