Top 15 Microsoft SQL Server Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

SQL Server delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage your data by enabling you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents within the database.

1. Google BigQuery

Google BigQuery BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, data analytics service. With BigQuery you have no infrastructure to manage, don't need a database administrator, use familiar SQL and can take advantage of a pay-as-you-go model. This myriad of features allows you to focus on what matters most: unlocking meaningful insights to better......

2. SAP HANA

SAP HANA SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform for real-time business.It transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning, predictive, sentiment data processing on a single in-memory database so business can operate in real-time.......

3. Titan Database

Titan Database Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs containing hundreds of billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. Titan is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users executing complex graph traversals in real time.......

4. MySQL Community Edition

MySQL Community Edition MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.......

5. Oracle TimesTen

Oracle TimesTen TimesTen is a memory-optimized, relational database management system with persistence and recoverability. Originally designed and implemented at Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, California, TimesTen was spun out into a separate startup in 1996 and acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2005.All data within a TimesTen database is located in physical memory......

6. Postgres-XC

Postgres-XC Postgres-XC is a write-scalable synchronous multi-master PostgreSQL cluster with the following features. 1) Both read and write scalability. 2) Configured with more than one server. 3) Complete global transaction and visibility management.......

7. Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse solution that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.......

8. Action PSQL

Action PSQL Actian PSQL combines a NoSQL transactional engine and a SQL relational engine to deliver a zero-DBA database platform for business applications.......

9. Mimer SQL

Mimer SQL Mimer SQL is an SQL-based relational database management system from the Swedish company Mimer Information Technology AB (formerly: Upright Database Technology AB), which has been developed and produced since the 1970s. The Mimer SQL database engine is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Symbian OS, Unix, VxWorks and......

10. Firebird

Firebird Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981.......

11. SQL*XL

SQL*XL SQL*XL links Excel and databases together. Oraxcel provides a full featured frontend to Oracle.SQL*XL adds database access to Excel. Through menu items and dialog screens SQL can be entered. SQL*XL fetches the data into Excel where you can analyze it. You may change the data in Excel and reconcile it......

12. H2 Database Engine

H2 Database Engine H2 is a relational database management system written in Java. It can be embedded in Java applications or run in the client-server mode. The disk footprint (size of the jar file) is about 1 MB.The software is available as open source software under modified versions of the Mozilla Public License......

13. Enhanced SQL Portal (ESP)

Enhanced SQL Portal (ESP) Eliacom's Enhanced SQL Portal (ESP) makes MySQL database management easy. Make databases, tables, columns, forms without knowing any mysql. Extend on the capabilities of MySQL with extra validations, automatic enforcement of referential integrity and much more. A complete list of features is available at: http://www.eliacom.com/mysql-gui-products.php......

14. Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra Apache Cassandra has become the leading NoSQL platform driving many of today's modern business applications by offering continuous availability, high scalability and performance, strong security, and operational simplicity while lowering overall cost of ownership.The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising......

15. EventQL

EventQL EventQL is a distributed, column-oriented database built for large-scale event collection and analytics. It runs super-fast SQL and JavaScript queries.......