The Best 38 Firebird 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

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    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • CockroachDB

    Cockroach is a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • 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

  • Apache HBase

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux Web

  • Alpha Five

    Alpha Five is a relational database management system and Rapid Application Development system (RAD) for building Windows desktop and Web (including AJAX)...

    Commercial Windows

  • Cosmos DB

    Azure DocumentDB is a NoSQL document database service designed from the ground up to natively support JSON and JavaScript directly inside the database engine. It’s the...

    Commercial Web

  • TeamSQL

    Essentially, TeamSQL is a robust, cross-platform data client that can be used for multiple database environments such as MsSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and more running...

    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

  • Ingres

    Ingres is the leading business open source database. Discover the New Economics of IT. Learn how to lower your TCO over a three-year period.

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • mSQL

    Mini SQL, or mSQL, is a lightweight database engine designed to provide fast access to stored data with low memory requirements. As its name implies, mSQL offers a...

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • SAP MaxDB

    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...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux