Top RDBMS Software for DataBase

Between them, the 24 RDBMS software on this page cover SQL (23), backup and recovery (7), multiple programming languages supported (6) and performance analysis (6). 24 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.

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   CockroachDB

   SQL

   CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database from Cockroach Labs with a PostgreSQL-compatible interface, sold as a managed cloud service and as licensed self-managed software.

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   Why #1: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, as stated on its own website, read 5 Oct 2026

   Not yet on record: client reviews, vetting.

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   AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

   SQL

   AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a managed database from Google Cloud that is compatible with PostgreSQL.

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   Why #2 (shared): 24/7 support, as stated on its own website, read 5 Oct 2026

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   Percona Server for MySQL

   SQL

   Percona Server for MySQL is a drop-in compatible build of MySQL Community Edition with added backup, security, encryption and monitoring features, with paid support available.

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   Why #2 (shared): 24/7 support, as stated on its own website, read 5 Oct 2026

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   Google Cloud Spanner

   SQL

   Google Cloud Spanner is a managed, globally distributed relational database from Google Cloud with SQL and PostgreSQL interfaces, sold only as a cloud service.

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   Why #2 (shared): 24/7 support, as stated on its own website, read 5 Oct 2026

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   PlanetScale

   SQL

   PlanetScale sells managed Postgres and Vitess-based MySQL databases with sharding, on a proprietary managed service priced per instance size on AWS.

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   Why #5: 5 major incidents in 90 days (status page) · GDPR compliant, as stated on its own website, read 5 Oct 2026

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   MariaDB

   Multiple Programming Languages Supported · Backup and Recovery · Performance Analysis

   After Oracle acquired MySQL, MariaDB grew up as the community's alternative, and it keeps that independent character today. MariaDB Server is a relational database.

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   PostgreSQL

   Multiple Programming Languages Supported · Backup and Recovery · Performance Analysis

   More than 35 years of active development sit behind PostgreSQL, an object-relational database system with SQL support and JSON handling alongside its relational model.

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   SingleStore

   Multiple Programming Languages Supported · Backup and Recovery · Performance Analysis

   Developed by SingleStore, this distributed SQL database handles combined transactional and analytical workloads, plus vector and multi-model data.

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    SQLite

    Multiple Programming Languages Supported · Backup and Recovery · SQL

    Inside the application that uses it, SQLite supplies a full SQL database engine, written as a C-language library.

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    Oracle Database

    Multiple Programming Languages Supported · Backup and Recovery · Performance Analysis

    Enterprise workloads are the target of Oracle Database, a proprietary relational database from Oracle Corporation that also handles multi-model and vector data.

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    Amazon Aurora

    SQL

    Amazon Aurora is a managed relational database service from Amazon Web Services, compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL and billed on instances, storage and I/O or serverless…

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    EDB Postgres Advanced Server

    SQL

    EDB Postgres Advanced Server is EDB's commercial PostgreSQL distribution with Oracle compatibility and security features, now branded Enterprise Postgres (Oracle Compatible).

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    Firebird

    SQL

    Firebird is an open source relational database descended from InterBase source released in 2000, run as a server or embedded and developed by volunteers.

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    IBM Db2

    Database Conversion · SQL · Relational

    Transactional, analytical and vector workloads come together in IBM Db2, IBM's relational database.

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    Microsoft Azure SQL Database

    SQL

    Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's managed SQL Server-engine service with General Purpose, Business Critical and Hyperscale tiers and a serverless option.

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    MySQL

    SQL

    MySQL is a relational database server owned by Oracle, available under the GPL v2 for community use and under a paid commercial licence for Enterprise and embedding.

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    Neon

    SQL

    Neon is open source serverless Postgres that separates storage from compute, with autoscaling, scale-to-zero and database branching, sold as a managed service.

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    OceanBase

    SQL

    OceanBase is a distributed relational database from Ant Group, using Paxos replication, MySQL compatible and capable of mixed transactional and analytical workloads.

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    Paritas

    Sponsored

    An Oracle-compatible database built on PostgreSQL, in development, that measures where its compatibility with Oracle ends instead of assuming it. Not yet for sale.

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    SAP Hana

    Multiple Programming Languages Supported · Backup and Recovery · Performance Analysis

    In-memory technology is the foundation of SAP Hana, a big data system that keeps working data in memory so it can be processed far faster than on disk-based storage.

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    SQL Server

    Backup and Recovery · Performance Analysis · SQL

    Microsoft ships SQL Server as a proprietary relational database server for Windows and Linux, with managed variants on Azure.

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    TiDB

    SQL

    TiDB is an open source, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database from PingCAP that separates compute from storage for transactional and analytical workloads.

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    Turso / libSQL

    SQL

    Turso is an SQLite-compatible database, with an in-process Rust engine and the libSQL fork, offered under the MIT licence and as the managed Turso Cloud service.

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    YugabyteDB

    SQL

    YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database built on a PostgreSQL fork, released under Apache-2.0 and sold with a managed cloud service and a self-managed platform.

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