MongoDB Alternatives

MongoDB is described as 'Document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need' and is a very popular relational database in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MongoDB for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best MongoDB alternative is PostgreSQL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MongoDB are SQLite, MySQL Community Edition, MariaDB and Redis.

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  1. LiteDB icon
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    LiteDB is an open-source, MongoDB-like database that requires no configuration and is mobile-ready. It's a serverless database delivered in a single DLL under 450kb, fully written in .NET C# managed code and compatible with .NET 4.5 and NETStandard 2.0.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. 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
     
  3. Persevere is designed to create applications with user interface implemented primarily on the client side and Persevere playing the role as an HTTP-based RESTful data provider.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. NCache icon
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    NCache is an Open Source in-memory distributed cache for .NET, Java, and Node.js. NCache provides an extremely fast and linearly scalable distributed cache that caches application data and reduces expensive database trips.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Garnet icon
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    Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. TayzGrid icon
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    TayzGrid is an elastic in-memory data grid with a self-healing peer to peer dynamic data grid clustering architecture. TayzGrid is extremely fast and linearly scalable data grid and provides intelligent replication for data reliability without compromising on scalability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • JBoss
    • WebSphere Application Server
    • Oracle Weblogic Server
    • Apache Tomcat
     
  7. Move global variables and configurations from your code repository into a dropconfig, and you can now update them without deploying your code.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Mimer SQL icon
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    Mimer SQL is an SQL-based relational database management system from the Swedish company Mimer Information Technology AB (formerly: Upright Database Technology AB), which has been developed and produced since the 1970s.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • Symbian S60
     
  9. AmberDB icon
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    AmberDB is a high-performance, flat-file NoSQL database engine for Perl built on top of Berkeley DB (DB_File). It combines the speed of flat-file storage with enterprise features: schema-driven multi-dimensional indexing, ACID-compliant transactions with Strict Two-Phase Locking...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. RegattaDB icon
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    RegattaDB is a distributed SQL database that unifies transactional (OLTP), analytical (OLAP), and Vectors in a single engine, with strong ACID guarantees, at scale, performance, and efficiency.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Gel Data icon
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    Postgres is the endgame database. Gel supercharges it with a modern data model, graph queries, Auth & AI solutions, and much more.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PostgreSQL
    • Online
     
  12. dragonfly icon
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    Dragonfly is a lightning fast, in-memory data store built for heavy workloads running on modern cloud hardware. Dragonfly is 100% API compatible with Redis, Valkey, and Memcached, allowing for quick and seamless migrations that result in up to 25X better performance on half the...

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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