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 2023 May Project Features Stars Activity Rating
12 ↓↓↓ 9 RethinkDB Document 26,528 5.5 3.50%
13 ↓ 12 MongoDB Document 25,453 10.0 3.36%
15 - 15 PouchDB Document 16,296 9.3 2.15%
20 ↓↓ 18 ArangoDB Graph Document 13,352 9.9 1.76%
28 - 28 CouchDB Document 6,025 9.5 0.79%
36 ↓↓ 34 OrientDB Key-value Document 4,693 9.8 0.62%
40 - 40 RavenDB Document 3,442 10.0 0.45%
54 ↑ 55 Couchbase Document 215 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.