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Alternatives · 2026

The best Oracle Database alternatives

The rest of Best Database Software, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

1
SQLite

SQLite suits developers needing an embedded database, particularly for device-local data with low writer concurrency and less than a terabyte of…

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5 $2,000 one-time Record8.7 Visit
2 WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record8.5 Visit
3
Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database suits teams building modern applications, mission-critical workloads, or AI-ready architectures.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+4 Free plan Record8.4 Visit
4
SingleStore Helios

Helios suits teams that need a cloud database for transactional and analytical work, with multiple data models or AI workloads.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record7.9 Visit
5
Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB suits teams building cloud applications that need managed NoSQL storage, automatic scaling, or multi-Region operation.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5 Free plan Record7.8 Visit
6
Firestore

Firestore suits developers building AI, web, or mobile applications that need a document database and client SDKs for Android, iOS, or web.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+1 Free plan Record7.8 Visit
7
Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server suits organizations and developers that need a database engine, data integration, or data virtualization.

WindowsLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record7.6 Visit
8
Google Cloud SQL

Cloud SQL suits organizations needing managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server databases in the cloud.

WebWindowsMac+2 $0.04 usage-based Record7.5 Visit
9
Apache Cassandra

Cassandra suits teams managing large active datasets across on-premises or cloud environments.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record7.5 Visit
10
PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is suited to developers building applications and administrators focused on data integrity and fault-tolerant environments.

WindowsMacLinux+1 Free plan Record7.4 Visit
11
Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS suits teams that want a managed relational database with multiple engine choices.

WebAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record7.4 Visit
12 WebWindowsLinux+2 $630 a month Record7.4 Visit
13
Google Cloud Spanner

Spanner suits application teams needing distributed relational data with graph, search, analytics, and multi-region options.

WebLinuxAPI+1 — Record7.3 Visit
14
TiDB Cloud

It suits teams needing a managed MySQL-compatible database for transactional and analytical workloads.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record7.3 Visit
15
CockroachDB Cloud

CockroachDB Cloud suits teams building relational database workloads that need managed operations across regions or cloud providers.

WebLinuxAPI $0.60 a month Record7.3 Visit
16
InfluxDB

InfluxDB 3 may suit teams handling timestamped data for industrial operations, observability, or AI applications.

WebWindowsMac+3 $0.01 usage-based Record7.2 Visit
17 WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record7.1 Visit
18
Amazon Aurora

AWS identifies enterprise applications, multi-tenant SaaS, and globally distributed applications as Aurora workloads.

API Free plan Record7.0 Visit
19
MariaDB Server

It suits developers and organizations seeking a self-hosted relational database for applications, analytics, transaction data, or embedded…

WindowsMacLinux+1 Free plan Record7.0 Visit
20
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

It suits developers building flexible-schema, latency-sensitive, elastic, high-throughput, or highly available mission-critical applications.

APISelf-hosted Free plan Record6.9 Visit
21 WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record6.9 Visit
22
Neo4j

Neo4j suits developers and organizations working with connected data who need graph querying and deployment choices.

Self-hosted $65 a month Record6.8 Visit
23 WebWindowsMac+3 $25.30 a month Record6.8 Visit
24
Exasol

Exasol suits organizations needing multi-departmental analytics, in-database machine learning or AI, or complex data integration and virtualization.

WebWindowsMac+3 $3.30 a month Record6.8 Visit