The Best 50 SQLite 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

  • 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

  • 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 DB ADK

    Develop cross-platform applications with embedded royalty free Valentina DB engine, as well as client-server applications to work with Valentina Server. The same code in both scenarios! Deploy apps with royalty free VServer! .

    Freemium 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

  • 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

  • Apache OpenOffice Base

    base, part of the apache openoffice suite, offers help to users new to database design (or just new to base) to create tables, queries...

    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

  • BitcoinJS

    BitcoinJS is a clean, readable, proven library for Bitcoin JavaScript development on Node.js and web browsers.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac JavaScript Bitcoin

  • Cellica Database

    Read and write to your databases without any programming changes. Quickest and easiest way to go paperless. Read and Write to any desktop side database Wirelessly...

    Commercial Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • 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

  • dBworx

    PLWorx software provides simple, flexible software to build full-featured relational databases or free-form information managers

    Freemium Windows