MongoDB Alternatives

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. Filesystem-backed document DBMS in Rust where every record is a Git-versionable JSON file with automatic cryptographic integrity for compliance-critical systems.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  3. OrbitDB icon
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    OrbitDB is a serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database. OrbitDB uses IPFS as its data storage and IPFS Pubsub to automatically sync databases with peers. It's an eventually consistent database that uses CRDTs for conflict-free database merges making OrbitDB an excellent...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Database Labs icon
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    A Postgres Database as a Service platform so you can focus on writing your app, not on becoming a database administrator.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
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  5. Hazelcast icon
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    Hazelcast is an in-memory Open Source data grid based on Java. By having multiple nodes form a cluster, data is evenly distributed among the nodes. This allows for horizontal scalability both in terms of available storage space and processing power.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Tarantool icon
     4 likes

    A NoSQL database running in a Lua application server. Tarantool combines the network programming power of Node.JS with data persitence capabilities of Redis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. VoltDB icon
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    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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. HyperDex icon
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    HyperDex is the next generation key-value store. It provides a rich API, strong consistency, fault-tolerance, and transactions.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. Pigsty icon
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    A battery-included, local-first, open-source PostgreSQL RDS alternative.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. XTDB icon
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    The open database with temporal graph query.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  12. TidesDB icon
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    TidesDB is a fast and efficient key value storage engine library written in C. The underlying data structure is based on a log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • C (programming language)
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