PostgreSQL Alternatives

Apps similar to PostgreSQL include SQLite, which is free and open source. Other options are MySQL Community Edition, MariaDB, MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server. Relational Databases like PostgreSQL are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, self-hosting and the web.

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  1. 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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PostgreSQL
    • Online
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  2. Picodata icon
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    Picodata is a distributed, PostgreSQL-compatible database with a plugin model in Rust; plugins add Redis and Cassandra CQL wire protocol support.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
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  3. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. VeloceDB icon
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    VeloceDB is an on-premises workgroup database for ops and DBA teams. The engine is self-installed. The license includes Tachyon ISAM and relational SQL on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. DoltLite icon
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    A SQLite fork that replaces the B-tree storage engine with a content-addressed prolly tree, giving Git-like version control on a SQL database. The parser, planner, and VDBE stay upstream-derived above SQLite's btree.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • SQLite
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Barman icon
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    Allows your company to implement disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL databases with high requirements of business continuity.

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    • Linux
    • Python
    • PostgreSQL
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    pyzdb is a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ. Designed for storing nested list and dict, it offers Python syntax queries instead of some variation of SQL. A deliberate choice is made to make no optimization on the queries so you know exactly what...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  8. 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.

    119 Sqlite Page Explorer alternatives

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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