Best Database Software in 2026 · page 2

CockroachDB Cloud

CockroachDB Cloud is a fully managed distributed SQL platform for workloads ranging from development and testing to production applications.

Apache Druid

Apache Druid handles streaming and batch data, with millisecond OLAP queries at large scale.

Microsoft SQL Server

Database engine with relational, XML and JSON support, data integration tools and data virtualization.

Google Cloud SQL

Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed cloud relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

Neo4j

Neo4j is a property graph database for storing and querying connected data.

InterSystems IRIS

InterSystems IRIS is a paid platform for APIs, desktop, web and self-hosted deployment; trial available.

Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB is a cloud, fully managed document database service compatible with MongoDB APIs and drivers.

VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics is a time-series database and monitoring solution for collecting, querying, and retaining metrics, within a wider stack that also covers logs and traces.

Google Cloud Spanner

Google Cloud Spanner is a globally distributed database combining relational, graph, key-value, and search capabilities.

Google Cloud Bigtable

Bigtable is a managed NoSQL service for operational analytics and machine learning, with SQL query support.

Firebird

Firebird offers ANSI SQL, transactions, procedures, triggers and monitoring for relational data.

Apache HBase

Apache HBase is a distributed data store for applications that need random, real-time reads and writes with strict consistency.

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a cloud warehouse for SQL across data warehouses and lakes, with provisioned or serverless use.

RavenDB

RavenDB is a schema-less NoSQL document database for storing JSON documents and binary attachments.

Weaviate

Weaviate is an open-source AI vector database for storing, indexing, and searching high-dimensional vectors.

Kinetica

PostgreSQL

Open-source object-relational database with broad data types, transaction controls and query tools.

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service offering PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL engines.

MariaDB Server

Free general-purpose relational database management system with open-source code.

QuestDB

QuestDB is a time-series database for environments where low latency matters.

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL is a cloud database service that lists JSON documents, transactions, configurable consistency controls, multi-region…

SAP HANA Cloud

Apache CouchDB

Open-source document database storing named documents and offering a RESTful HTTP API.

SurrealDB

SurrealDB is a database platform with relational, document, graph, vector and time-series data built in.

Qdrant

Qdrant is a vector similarity search engine and API for storing, searching, and managing vectors alongside payload data.