The Best Open-Source Databases

Based on github stars

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

Filtering projects by: Document X

Rank Change 2025 Jun Project Features Stars Activity Rating
13 - 13 MongoDB Document 28,343 10.0 3.06%
14 - 14 RethinkDB Document 27,001 5.0 2.91%
17 - 17 PouchDB Document 17,574 8.6 1.90%
23 - 23 ArangoDB Graph Document 14,194 9.9 1.53%
30 ↓ 29 CouchDB Document 6,890 9.7 0.74%
36 - 36 OrientDB Key-value Document 4,963 9.6 0.54%
41 ↓ 40 RavenDB Document 3,951 10.0 0.43%
54 - 54 Couchbase Document 232 0.0 0.03%
  • 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.

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