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. Managed cloud databases with flat monthly pricing: PostgreSQL, MySQL, FerretDB, Valkey, ClickHouse and more in one dashboard, plus a desktop app and CLI for local development.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    HSQLDB (Hyper Structured Query Language Database) is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92 and SQL:2008 standards. It offers a fast, small (around 1300 kilobytes in version 2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. JNSEDB is simple, persistable, fast and embeddable java nosql database dedicated to small applications. This database can be embedded to any java application without time wasting configuration. Add maven requirement and start using database.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    SQLGate is an integrated database management and development solution that simplifies the construction and operation of databases. A solution that fits different types of databases, SQLGate is customized for seven different databases that make up 83.2% of the DBMS market.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Home of Scimore Distributed SQL database and Scimore Embedded SQL database. Both supports SQL, ACID for both DDL&DML, advanced query prioritization and multiversioning concurrency protocol, so read transactions never blocks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Open Sqlite databases and explore the internal organisation of various objects such as schema, tables and indices. To understand how Sqlite3 data is organised, please see Database file format from Sqlite website.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  8. Advantage Database Server is a full-featured, easily embedded, client-server, relational database management system that provides you with Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM) table-based and SQL-based data access.

    36 Sybase Advantage Database Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. 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
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