Oracle Database Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Oracle Database is SQLite, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are PostgreSQL, MySQL Community Edition, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server. You're spoiled for choice with Relational Databases like Oracle Database: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. CockroachDB icon
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    Cockroach is a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability, hence the name.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Source Available

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. FerretDB icon
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    FerretDB (formerly MangoDB) is an open-source proxy, which converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. Amazon Aurora provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  4. 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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  5. Pigsty icon
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    A battery-included, local-first, open-source PostgreSQL RDS alternative.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Part of the Azure SQL, Azure SQL Database is an always-up-to-date, fully managed relational database service built for the cloud. Build your next app with the simplicity and flexibility of a multi-model database that scales to meet...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. RethinkDB icon
     18 likes

    The open-source database for the realtime web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  8. Database .NET icon
     17 likes

    Database .NET is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. UnQLite icon
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    UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph...

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. SlateDB icon
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    An embedded database built on object storage. Unlike traditional LSM-tree storage engines, SlateDB writes data to object storage to provide bottomless storage capacity, high durability, and easy replication.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  12. PlanetScale icon
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    The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Good alternative?
     
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