MongoDB AlternativesTop Relational Databases and other similar apps like MongoDB

One of the most popular alternatives to MongoDB is SQLite, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MariaDB and Redis. Relational Databases like MongoDB are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, self-hosting and the web.

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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.

    74 SQLite alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
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  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.

    80 PostgreSQL alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. Free GPL database software for relational and NoSQL applications, combining InnoDB and other pluggable storage engines with replication, group replication, clustering, partitioning, stored procedures, triggers, views, monitoring, connectors, and cross-platform tools.

    69 MySQL Community Edition alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. MariaDB icon
     148 likes

    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
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Redis icon
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    The in-memory data store used by millions of developers as a cache, vector database, document database, streaming engine, and message broker.

    52 Redis alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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    Redis running on Windows
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  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.

    69 Microsoft SQL Server alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Microsoft Azure
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  8. 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.

    77 CouchDB alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • BSD
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  9. 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...

    86 Azure Cosmos DB alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. DocumentDB icon
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    Open-source document database integrating NoSQL flexibility with PostgreSQL reliability, offering CRUD operations on BSON, full-text and geospatial search, vector embeddings, and schema-less data modeling for complex, cloud-ready workloads supporting MongoDB use cases.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • Visual Studio Code
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  11. 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.

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  12. Firestore icon
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    Firestore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development. While the Firestore interface has many of the same features as traditional databases, as a NoSQL database it differs from them in the way it describes...

    17 Firestore alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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