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 2024 Jul Project Features Stars Activity Rating
13 - 13 MongoDB Document 27,290 10.0 3.18%
14 ↓↓ 12 RethinkDB Document 26,900 0.0 3.13%
17 16 PouchDB Document 17,311 8.3 2.01%
23 ↓↓ 21 ArangoDB Graph Document 13,863 9.7 1.61%
29 28 CouchDB Document 6,581 9.6 0.77%
36 - 36 OrientDB Key-value Document 4,835 9.8 0.56%
40 - 40 RavenDB Document 3,798 10.0 0.44%
54 - 54 Couchbase Document 228 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.