Best SQL Databases
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What are SQL Databases?
SQL databases are structured systems that use the Structured Query Language (SQL) to store, retrieve, and manage data. They organize data into tables with rows and columns, ensuring that information is easily accessible, consistent, and scalable. SQL databases are widely used in applications that require complex queries, transactions, and data integrity, making them essential for web applications, financial systems, and enterprise environments. These databases offer robust features for security, data normalization, and maintaining relationships between different datasets. Overall, SQL databases are fundamental to managing relational data efficiently and reliably across various industries. Compare and read user reviews of the best SQL Databases currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Google Cloud SQL
Google
Google Cloud SQL offers a fully-managed service for SQL databases, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. It simplifies database administration by automating backup management, scaling, and security patches, allowing users to focus on their applications instead of infrastructure. With Google Cloud SQL, users can achieve high performance and reliability for SQL-based workloads with minimal effort. This service supports complex queries and data relationships, making it a great option for organizations that need robust SQL database solutions in the cloud. New customers also get $300 in free credits to explore and try Google Cloud SQL, helping them evaluate the service for their SQL database needs.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits) -
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RaimaDB
Raima
RaimaDB is an embedded time series database for IoT and Edge devices that can run in-memory. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS. Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments. RaimaDB is a high-performance, cross-platform embedded database designed for mission-critical applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing markets. It offers a small footprint, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments, and supports both in-memory and persistent storage configurations. RaimaDB provides developers with multiple data modeling options, including traditional relational models and direct relationships through network model sets. It ensures data integrity with ACID-compliant transactions and supports various indexing methods such as B+Tree, Hash Table, R-Tree, and AVL-Tree. -
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MySQL
Oracle
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. With its proven performance, reliability, and ease-of-use, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all five of the top five websites*. Additionally, it is an extremely popular choice as embedded database, distributed by thousands of ISVs and OEMs.Starting Price: Free -
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Amazon RDS
Amazon
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need. Amazon RDS is available on several database instance types - optimized for memory, performance or I/O - and provides you with six familiar database engines to choose from, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server. You can use the AWS Database Migration Service to easily migrate or replicate your existing databases to Amazon RDS.Starting Price: $0.01 per month -
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SingleStore
SingleStore
SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is a distributed, highly-scalable SQL database that can run anywhere. We deliver maximum performance for transactional and analytical workloads with familiar relational models. SingleStore is a scalable SQL database that ingests data continuously to perform operational analytics for the front lines of your business. Ingest millions of events per second with ACID transactions while simultaneously analyzing billions of rows of data in relational SQL, JSON, geospatial, and full-text search formats. SingleStore delivers ultimate data ingestion performance at scale and supports built in batch loading and real time data pipelines. SingleStore lets you achieve ultra fast query response across both live and historical data using familiar ANSI SQL. Perform ad hoc analysis with business intelligence tools, run machine learning algorithms for real-time scoring, perform geoanalytic queries in real time.Starting Price: $0.69 per hour -
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CockroachDB
Cockroach Labs
CockroachDB: Cloud-native, distributed SQL. Your cloud applications deserve a cloud-native database. Cloud-based apps and services deserve a database that scales across clouds, eases operational complexity, and improves reliability. CockroachDB delivers resilient, distributed SQL with ACID transactions and data partitioned by location. Automate operations for mission-critical applications by pairing CockroachDB with orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Mesosphere DC/OS. Every node can service both reads and writes so that you can scale query throughput and database capacity by simply adding more endpoints. Just add new nodes to CockroachDB, and it automatically rebalances data, completely removing the pain of manual sharding. As demand shifts, CockroachDB detects hotspots and intelligently distributes data to maintain performance. Tune your database at the row level so that data lives close to your users and you can minimize query latency. -
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eXtremeDB
McObject
How is platform independent eXtremeDB different? - Hybrid data storage. Unlike other IMDS, eXtremeDB can be all-in-memory, all-persistent, or have a mix of in-memory tables and persistent tables - Active Replication Fabric™ is unique to eXtremeDB, offering bidirectional replication, multi-tier replication (e.g. edge-to-gateway-to-gateway-to-cloud), compression to maximize limited bandwidth networks and more - Row & Columnar Flexibility for Time Series Data supports database designs that combine row-based and column-based layouts, in order to best leverage the CPU cache speed - Embedded and Client/Server. Fast, flexible eXtremeDB is data management wherever you need it, and can be deployed as an embedded database system, and/or as a client/server database system -A hard real-time deterministic option in eXtremeDB/rt Designed for use in resource-constrained, mission-critical embedded systems. Found in everything from routers to satellites to trains to stock markets worldwide -
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SQreamDB
SQream Technologies Ltd
SQreamDB is a fully-featured GPU-accelerated data warehouse, capable of handling the most complex queries. SQreamDB has all of the features you expect from a relational database system, like comprehensive ANSI SQL support. Anyone can use SQreamDB to load, store, and analyze data up to 100x faster than any other data warehouse. With SQream's multiple product lines there's a solution for everyone. You can ask your data any business question and get the insight you need fast. Finally, off-limits questions are a thing of the past. A SQL database that empowers organizations to perform complex analytics on a petabyte-scale of data and gain time-sensitive business insights faster and cheaper than from any other solution. -
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Modernize and accelerate your transaction-based applications on premise and in the cloud with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE). This high-performance SQL database server uses a relational management model to meet rising demand for performance, reliability, and efficiency in every industry. Simplify operations and reduce costs with workload analyzer and workload profiler features for built-in high availability, disaster recovery, and resource optimization. Scale transactions, data, and users and improve performance with added technology options, such as MemScale and XOLTP. Discover how reducing overhead on production databases enables Q-Free employees to focus on innovation and value-adding work. Deploy on-premise and on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Deliver high performance and availability to process mission-critical transactions.
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Azure SQL Database
Microsoft
Part of the Azure SQL family, Azure SQL Database is the intelligent, scalable, relational database service built for the cloud. It’s evergreen and always up to date, with AI-powered and automated features that optimize performance and durability for you. Serverless compute and Hyperscale storage options automatically scale resources on demand, so you can focus on building new applications without worrying about storage size or resource management. Eliminate the complexity of configuring and managing high availability, tuning, backups and other database tasks with a fully managed SQL database. Accelerate your application development on the only cloud with evergreen SQL using the latest SQL Server capabilities, and never worry about updates, upgrades, or end of support again. Build modern apps your way with provisioned and serverless compute options.Starting Price: $0.5218 per vCore-hour -
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VistaDB
VistaDB
Microsoft has worked hard to make .NET and SQL Server a powerful combination and VistaDB brings that capability to a small, easy-to-deploy package. The VistaDB engine is a single, small managed assembly you deploy with your app and each database is a single file. Using Xamarin, you can fit a full RDBMS on your phone. VistaDB is a fully compliant ADO.NET data provider with support for Entity Framework, ADO.NET, and Typed Datasets as well as its own direct data access API for efficient cursor-based operations. Thanks to ADO.NET, VistaDB is already compatible with a wide range of third-party ORMs, reporting systems, and more. VistaDB fully supports the ADO.NET provider factory model allowing you to write one codebase that can target either VistaDB or SQL Server at runtime. Think of all the things built on top of ADO.NET, not just your application but reporting systems, ORMs, and other data-driven libraries for .NET.Starting Price: $1,595 per year -
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Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle
Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated cloud database that uses machine learning to automate database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks traditionally performed by DBAs. It supports a wide range of data types and models, including SQL, JSON documents, graph, geospatial, text, and vectors, enabling developers to build applications for any workload without integrating multiple specialty databases. Built-in AI and machine learning capabilities allow for natural language queries, automated data insights, and the development of AI-powered applications. It offers self-service tools for data loading, transformation, analysis, and governance, reducing the need for IT intervention. It provides flexible deployment options, including serverless and dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), as well as on-premises with Exadata Cloud@Customer.Starting Price: $123.86 per month -
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Firebird
Firebird Foundation
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981. The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000. The Firebird Project supplies users, developers, and administrators with various kinds of documentation, from Quick Start guides to expert-level articles devoted to various aspects of Firebird. -
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Azure Database for MariaDB
Microsoft
Easily deploy applications to the cloud using your choice of languages and frameworks. Achieve business continuity and dynamically respond to changes in customer demand with built-in high availability and elastic scaling. Get unparalleled security and compliance, including Azure IP Advantage, and industry-leading reach through a global network of Microsoft data centers. Choose the right resources for your workloads, with no hidden costs. Combine MariaDB Community edition with the benefits of a fully managed service provider to free developers from complex infrastructure and database management so they can focus on building exceptional apps. Azure Database for MariaDB works with popular open-source frameworks and languages and features tight integration with Azure web apps. Use it with popular content management apps, such as WordPress and Drupal, for a fully integrated experience that supports your specific application development needs. -
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Mimer SQL
Mimer
The Mimer SQL codebase is the most modern in the world. It is modular, extremely maintainable, easily expandable, and designed with portability in mind. We know how to squeeze out the best from computers and operating systems, and so does Mimer SQL. Our brand new SQL compiler with the latest in optimization techniques, coupled with a world-class storage engine and no limits besides what the hardware imposes, lays the groundwork for speed and efficiency that is second to none. Continuously improved and refined, the security features of Mimer SQL leave nothing wanting. Data in use, data in motion, and data at rest are all covered with time-tested, reliable, and documented algorithms. Mimer SQL is the ideal companion for the modern in-vehicle computation solution. Its performance and reliability match the hard demands of secure, flexible, and reliable data management in today’s autonomous and connected cars. -
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NuoDB
NuoDB
The world is moving to distributed applications and architectures, and your database should too. Learn how you can deploy where you want, when you want, and how you want with a distributed SQL database. Migrate existing SQL applications to a distributed, multi-node architecture that can dynamically scale out and in. Our Transaction Engines (TEs) and Storage Managers (SMs) work together to ensure ACID compliance across multiple nodes. Deploy in a distributed architecture. When you deploy your database with multiple nodes, the loss of one or multiple nodes will not result in the loss of database access. Deploy TEs and SMs to meet your variable workload needs, or deploy in the different environments the teams in your organization uses: in private and public clouds, in hybrid environments, and across clouds. -
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SAP HANA
SAP
SAP HANA in-memory database is for transactional and analytical workloads with any data type — on a single data copy. It breaks down the transactional and analytical silos in organizations, for quick decision-making, on premise and in the cloud. Innovate without boundaries on a database management system, where you can develop intelligent and live solutions for quick decision-making on a single data copy. And with advanced analytics, you can support next-generation transactional processing. Build data solutions with cloud-native scalability, speed, and performance. With the SAP HANA Cloud database, you can gain trusted, business-ready information from a single solution, while enabling security, privacy, and anonymization with proven enterprise reliability. An intelligent enterprise runs on insight from data – and more than ever, this insight must be delivered in real time. -
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Vertica
OpenText
The Unified Analytics Warehouse. Highest performing analytics and machine learning at extreme scale. As the criteria for data warehousing continues to evolve, tech research analysts are seeing new leaders in the drive for game-changing big data analytics. Vertica powers data-driven enterprises so they can get the most out of their analytics initiatives with advanced time-series and geospatial analytics, in-database machine learning, data lake integration, user-defined extensions, cloud-optimized architecture, and more. Our Under the Hood webcast series lets you to dive deep into Vertica features – delivered by Vertica engineers and technical experts – to find out what makes it the fastest and most scalable advanced analytical database on the market. From ride sharing apps and smart agriculture to predictive maintenance and customer analytics, Vertica supports the world’s leading data-driven disruptors in their pursuit of industry and business transformation. -
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FrontBase
FrontBase
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. FrontBase's speed, wide range of features, and flexible structure can give you a competitive edge. FrontBase is not only incredibly fast but is also a very scalable relational database server. Our customers use FrontBase to create everything from small personal databases to some of the largest enterprise-level databases in the world, yet without any need for expensive database administration staff. In business since 1996, FrontBase not only creates tools, but also mission critical applications, such as the Command and Control Center for the Copenhagen Police, a 24/7 emergency response system. With a dedicated Support division, and separate divisions for Tools, Core Development, and Professional Services, FrontBase is ready to help you achieve your goals with three offices around the world. -
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VoltDB
VoltDB
Volt Active Data is a data platform built to make your entire tech stack leaner, faster, and less expensive, so that your applications (and your company) can scale seamlessly to meet the ultra-low latency SLAs of 5G, IoT, edge computing, and whatever comes next. Designed to augment your existing big data investments, such as NoSQL, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Kafka, and traditional databases or data warehouses, Volt Active Data replaces the various layers typically required to make contextual decisions on streaming data with a single, unified layer that can handle ingest to action in less than 10 milliseconds. The world is full of data that’s generated, stored, forgotten, and then deleted. “Active Data” is data that needs to be acted on immediately to gain business value from it. There are lots of traditional and NoSQL data storage products that you can use to keep such data. There’s also data that you can make money from, if only you can act on it fast enough to ‘influence the moment’. -
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Altibase
Altibase
Altibase is an enterprise-grade, high-performance and relational open source database. A single database that delivers high-intensity data processing through an in-memory database portion and large storage capacity through an on-disk database portion. 10 times faster than conventional on-disk databases. Clients have consistently chosen Altibase over Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and others. Altibase has replaced many traditional on-disk databases in various industries that require real time solutions since 1999. Altibase now has over 650 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies with thousands of mission-critical deployments worldwide. Product maturity rich with function and feature. Altibase is open source which includes its cutting-edge scale-out technology, sharding. No license costs with flexible and competitive subscription fees. 20 years’ accumulated know-how of dealing with over 6,000 mission-critical use cases. -
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SAP MaxDB
SAP
SAP® MaxDB™ is the database management system developed and supported by SAP SE. SAP MaxDB™ is SAP's own database. It is specifically designed to provide lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for SAP applications. SAP solutions use SAP MaxDB to store both application logic and business data. The database is a central component of any SAP solution installation and provides the basis for its reliability. Information about creating and configuring a database, monitoring, backing up and recovering data, exporting and importing data, managing users, analyzing database performance, using SQL optimizer, searching for errors, developing database applications and further activities. Tools integrated in the Computing Centre Management System (CCMS) for analyzing a SAP MaxDB database, scheduling actions and monitoring the database functions and alerts. Command line tool for database administration. -
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Oracle TimesTen
Oracle
Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database (TimesTen) delivers real time application performance (low response time and high throughput) by changing the assumptions around where data resides at runtime. By managing data in memory, and optimizing data structures and access algorithms accordingly, database operations execute with maximum efficiency achieving dramatic gains in responsiveness and throughput. With the introduction of TimesTen Scaleout, a shared nothing scale-out architecture based on the existing in-memory technology, TimesTen allows databases to transparently scale across dozens of hosts, reach hundreds of terabytes in size and support hundreds of millions of transactions per second without the need for manual database sharding or workload partitioning. -
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Actian Ingres
Actian
Ultra-reliable SQL-standard transactional database with X100 operational analytics. Actian Ingres has long been known as an ultra-reliable enterprise transactional database. Today Actian Ingres is a hybrid transactional/analytical processing database with record-breaking performance. Ingres supports both row-based and columnar storage formats using its ultra-reliable enterprise transactional database, and Vector’s X100 analytics engine. This combination allows organizations to perform transaction processing and operational analytics easily and efficiently within a single database. The most trusted and time-tested transactional database with a low total cost of ownership, 24/7 global support, and industry-leading customer satisfaction. It has a proven track record, with thousands of enterprises running billions of transactions over decades of deployment, upgrades, and migrations. -
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HyperSQL DataBase
The hsql Development Group
HSQLDB (HyperSQL DataBase) is the leading SQL relational database system written in Java. It offers a small, fast multithreaded and transactional database engine with in-memory and disk-based tables and supports embedded and server modes. It includes a powerful command line SQL tool and simple GUI query tools. HSQLDB supports the widest range of SQL Standard features seen in any open source database engine: SQL:2016 core language features and an extensive list of SQL:2016 optional features. It supports full Advanced ANSI-92 SQL with only two exceptions. Many extensions to the Standard, including syntax compatibility modes and features of other popular database engines, are also supported. -
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Oracle Database
Oracle
Oracle database products offer customers cost-optimized and high-performance versions of Oracle Database, the world's leading converged, multi-model database management system, as well as in-memory, NoSQL, and MySQL databases. Oracle Autonomous Database, available on-premises via Oracle Cloud@Customer or in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, enables customers to simplify relational database environments and reduce management workloads. Oracle Autonomous Database eliminates the complexity of operating and securing Oracle Database while giving customers the highest levels of performance, scalability, and availability. Oracle Database can be deployed on-premises when customers have data residency and network latency concerns. Customers with applications that are dependent on specific Oracle database versions have complete control over the versions they run and when those versions change.
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