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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MSSQL

PostgreSQL MySQL MariaDB MongoDB SQLite Oracle DBaaS memcached Hadoop Redis InfluxData

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to MSSQL are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Databases #Relational Databases #NoSQL Databases 15 social mentions

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    The world's most popular open source database
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    • Open Source

    #Databases #Relational Databases #SQL Database 4 social mentions

  3. An enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL
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    • Open Source

    #Databases #Relational Databases #NoSQL Databases 33 social mentions

  4. MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance NoSQL database.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #NoSQL Databases #Databases #Document Databases 15 social mentions

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    SQLite Home Page
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Databases #Relational Databases #NoSQL Databases 18 social mentions

  6. See how Oracle Database 12c enables businesses to plug into the cloud and power the real-time enterprise.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Databases #Relational Databases #NoSQL Databases

  7. High-performance, distributed memory object caching system
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Key-Value Database #Databases #NoSQL Databases 28 social mentions

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    Open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Databases #NoSQL Databases #Big Data 15 social mentions

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    Redis is an open source in-memory data structure project implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Key-Value Database #NoSQL Databases #Databases 183 social mentions

  10. Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics.
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    • Open Source

    #Big Data #Time Series Database #Time Series Data 2 social mentions

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    HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and peer-based replication
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    • Open Source

    #Databases #NoSQL Databases #Relational Databases 16 social mentions

  12. Google Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Databases #Relational Databases #Tool 17 social mentions

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