The Best 62 Cosmos DB Alternatives

  • MySQL Community Edition icon

    MySQL Community Edition

    MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • SQLite icon

    SQLite

    SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Self-Hosted

  • PostgreSQL icon

    PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • MongoDB icon

    MongoDB

    MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. The database is document-oriented so it manages collections of JSON-like documents.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Web

  • MariaDB

    MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement of the MySQL® Database Server. It includes all major open source storage engines. The source code for MariaDB is publically available from Launchpad.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

  • Redis

    Redis (REmote DIctionary Server) is an open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store with optional durability. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Self-Hosted

  • Microsoft SQL Server

    SQL Server delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage your data by enabling you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents within the database.

    Freemium Windows

  • CouchDB

    Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP / JSON API.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD

  • Valentina Server

    Valentina Server is 3 in 1: * Valentina DB Server * Valentina SQLite Server * Valentina Report Server .

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Raspberry Pi

  • ArangoDB

    ArangoDB database is an open-source NoSQL solution with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient sql-like query language or JavaScript extensions.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Oracle Database

    Oracle Database delivers industry leading performance, scalability, security and reliability on a choice of clustered or single-servers running Windows, Linux, and UNIX.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • RethinkDB

    RethinkDB pushes JSON to your apps in realtime. When your app polls for data, it becomes slow, unscalable, and cumbersome to maintain.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Firebird

    Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Apache Cassandra

    Apache Cassandra has become the leading NoSQL platform driving many of today's modern business applications by offering continuous availability, high scalability and performance, strong security, and operational simplicity while...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • H2 Database Engine

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • CouchBase

    Couchbase is the NoSQL database market share leader, with production deployments at AOL, Deutsche Post, NTT Docomo, Salesforce.com, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Zynga and hundreds of other organizations worldwide.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • HSQLDB

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Mimer SQL

    Mimer SQL is an SQL-based relational database management system from the Swedish company Mimer Information Technology AB (formerly: Upright Database Technology AB)...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Windows Mobile

  • IBM Lotus Approach

    Lotus Approach is the award-winning relational database designed to manage, analyze and report on business information. It offers breakthrough ease of use, unprecedented...

    Commercial Windows