MySQL Community Edition Alternatives

Apps similar to MySQL Community Edition include SQLite, which is free and open source. Other options are PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server. Relational Databases like MySQL Community Edition are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, 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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    • Rust
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  2. HSQLDB icon
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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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

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    • Self-Hosted
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  4. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. H2 is a relational database management system written in Java. It can be embedded in Java applications or run in the client-server mode. The disk footprint (size of the jar file) is about 1 MB.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  6. Frontbase icon
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    FrontBase was created to fill the need for a robust and scalable relational database server that was Internet enabled, had no downtime, and required zero administration. FrontBases speed, wide range of features, and flexible structure can give you the competitive edge.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. 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

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    • Windows
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  8. Starcounter icon
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    The Starcounter database is built with the real-time systems of today in mind. Real-time systems supporting thousands or millions of simultaneous users. Systems like online stores, location-based services or banking applications.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. MaxDB is an ANSI SQL-92 (entry level) compliant relational database management system (RDBMS) from SAP AG, which was delivered also by MySQL AB from 2003 to 2007. MaxDB is targeted for large SAP environments e.g.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. SQLMachine is a freeware, safe, scalable and adequate performance client-server side architectural SQL DBMS. (Database Management System).

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. Apache HBase icon
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    HBase is an open source, non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem), providing...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
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  12. 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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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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