18.6
SQLite is a transactional SQL database engine that runs inside an application, without a separate server process or configuration.
Free planOpen sourceAndroidiOSWeb
Best Transaction Data Store Software in 2026
28.1
TiDB Cloud is a managed cloud database service built around an open-source distributed SQL database with MySQL compatibility.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
37.9
MySQL is an open-source database for web, e-commerce, SaaS, and online transaction processing applications.
Free planAPILinuxmacOS
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Aerospike Database
Aerospike Database is a real-time database designed for millisecond latency and large-scale transaction processing, including document access and graph traversal.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.8Free plan - 5
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud-based, fully managed NoSQL database for applications that need single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, according to AWS.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.8Free plan - 6
Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL distributed database for mission-critical data and large active datasets.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.7Free plan - 7
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a cloud-native relational database service built on the SQL Server engine and delivered as a fully managed PaaS.
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.7Free plan - 8
Turso
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI7.7$4.99 usage-based - 9
IBM Db2
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.4From $630 a month - 10
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon DocumentDB is a cloud, fully managed document database service compatible with MongoDB APIs and drivers.
WebAPI7.1 - 11
CockroachDB Cloud
CockroachDB Cloud is a fully managed distributed SQL platform for workloads ranging from development and testing to production applications.
Free planWebAPILinux7.1From $0.16 a month - 12
Neon
Neon is a managed, cloud-hosted PostgreSQL service for relational databases.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.1$0.11 usage-based - 13
Neo4j
Neo4j is a property graph database for storing and querying connected data.
Free planSelf-hosted7.0From $65 a month - 14
Firebird
Firebird is a free, open-source relational database management system with ANSI SQL features, available for Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted deployment.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.9From €199 a month - 15
Google Cloud SQL
Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed cloud relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.9From $0.04 a month - 16
Microsoft SQL Server
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.8Free plan - 17
Apache CouchDB
Apache CouchDB is a document database that stores named documents and lets applications read and update them through a RESTful HTTP API.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS6.6Free plan - 18
Google Cloud Spanner
Google Cloud Spanner is a globally distributed database combining relational, graph, key-value, and search capabilities.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.6 - 19
PlanetScale
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.6From $5 a month - 20
YugabyteDB Anywhere
YugabyteDB Anywhere (YBA) is a self-managed database-as-a-service for deploying and operating YugabyteDB universes.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 21
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that automates provisioning, patching, backups, and scaling.
Free planWebAPI6.4Free plan - 22
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service offering PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL engines.
Free planAPI6.3Free plan - 23
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…
Free planAPISelf-hosted6.3Free plan - 24
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a free, open-source object-relational database system that uses and extends SQL for complex data workloads.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.3Free plan - 25
TiKV
TiKV is an open-source distributed transactional key-value database intended to provide a unified storage layer across nodes.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.2Free plan