The Best Open-Source Databases

Based on github stars

Top 50 Most Popular Open-Source Databases
by number of GitHub stars

Filtering projects by: Column X

Rank Change 2023 May Project Features Stars Activity Rating
7 - 7 ClickHouse Column 34,153 10.0 4.51%
25 - 25 Apache Cassandra Column 8,510 9.9 1.12%
34 ↓↓↓ 31 Apache HBase Column 5,117 9.6 0.68%
47 - 47 Apache Accumulo Column 1,045 9.7 0.14%
  • Rating - the percentage of stars of a particular project from the total number.
  • Activity - a relative number between 0 and 10 representing the commits activity of a project.
    9+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 10% of most actively developed projects.
    5+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 50% of most active projects.

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Note that this is an alternative DB-Engines ranking focused on open-source databases only.