List of 45 databases in the world

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  1. yugabyte-db

    YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

    YugabyteDB — Distributed SQL database for high-performance and cloud-native applications.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. TimescaleDB

    A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension

    Timescale — Open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries.

  4. sqlite

    sqlite mirror (by smparkes)

    SQLite — Lightweight, disk-based database that’s self-contained and serverless.

  5. PostgreSQL

    Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

    PostgreSQL — Advanced, open-source relational database known for its reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

  6. canopy

    Discontinued Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework and context engine powered by Pinecone

    Pinecone — Vector database for machine learning and AI applications.

  7. MySQL

    MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.

    MySQL — Popular open-source relational database known for its speed and reliability.

  8. MongoDB

    The MongoDB Database

    MongoDB — Document database known for its flexibility and scalability.

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  10. MeiliSearch

    A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

    Meilisearch — Open-source search engine that is fast and relevant out of the box.

  11. influxdb3-python

    Python module that provides a simple and convenient way to interact with InfluxDB 3.0.

    InfluxDB — Open-source time-series database.

  12. cockroach

    CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

    CockroachDB — Distributed SQL database built for cloud applications.

  13. ArangoDB

    🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.

    ArangoDB — Native multi-model database supporting graph, document, and key-value data models.

  14. surrealdb

    A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web

    SurrealDB — Multi-model database for the cloud, edge, and IoT.

  15. supabase

    The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.

    Supabase — Open-source Firebase alternative, offers a backend as a service built on PostgreSQL.

  16. solr

    Apache Solr open-source search software

    Solr — Open-source search platform built on Apache Lucene.

  17. Redis

    Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

    Redis — In-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.

  18. prometheus

    The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

    Prometheus — Open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

  19. planetscale-java

    Planetscale Connector for Java

    PlanetScale — Serverless database platform built on MySQL and Vitess.

  20. neon

    Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.

    Neon — Serverless PostgreSQL platform built for the cloud.

  21. Neo4j

    Graphs for Everyone

    Neo4j — Leading graph database platform, known for its performance and scalability.

  22. Milvus

    Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

    Milvus — Open-source vector database for AI and machine learning.

  23. Memgraph

    Open-source graph database, tuned for dynamic analytics environments. Easy to adopt, scale and own.

    Memgraph — Real-time graph database for streaming data.

  24. Memcached

    memcached development tree

    Memcached — High-performance distributed memory object caching system.

  25. KeyDB

    A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

    KeyDB — High-performance fork of Redis with multithreading.

  26. Apache HBase

    Apache HBase

    HBase — Distributed, scalable, big data store.

  27. faunadb-swift

    Swift driver for FaunaDB

    Fauna — Distributed, serverless database with document, graph, and relational models.

  28. dgraph

    high-performance graph database for real-time use cases

    Dgraph — Distributed, fast graph database.

  29. CouchDB

    Seamless multi-primary syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability

    CouchDB — Database that uses JSON to store data and JavaScript for MapReduce queries.

  30. SaaSHub

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