160 tools · 97 open-source · 63 SaaS
The best databases. Ranked by real activity.
The top-ranked open-source database on Enlisted is Redis (77k GitHub stars), followed by etcd and ClickHouse. Among SaaS products, other tools on Enlisted are most often compared with Databricks, Snowflake and Aiven.
Enlisted lists 160 databases: 97 open source and 63 SaaS. 95 of the open-source ones can be self-hosted on your own server or computer. The most common open-source licences here are Apache-2.0 (49 tools), MIT (10) and AGPL-3.0 (5). The open-source ones are most often listed as alternatives to Snowflake, Google BigQuery and Aiven.
Last updated October 3, 2026 · ranked by GitHub stars, growth and recent commits
The top 48 of 160 databases
Redis
Databases
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferre
OSSvs Upstash★ 77k
etcd
Databases
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Apache-2.0★ 52k
ClickHouse
Databases
ClickHouse is a fast open-source column-oriented database management system that allows ge
Apache-2.0vs Snowflake★ 50k
Milvus
Databases
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN s
Apache-2.0vs Pinecone★ 46k
DuckDB
Databases
DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
MITvs MotherDuck★ 42k
TiDB
Databases
TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and nati
Apache-2.0vs Amazon Aurora★ 41k
Qdrant
Databases
Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the
Apache-2.0vs Pinecone★ 35k
SurrealDB
Databases
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
OSSvs MongoDB Atlas★ 33k
CockroachDB
Databases
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, e
OSSvs Google Cloud Spanner★ 33k
Dragonfly
Databases
A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
OSSvs Upstash★ 32k
InfluxDB
Databases
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Apache-2.0vs KX kdb+★ 32k
Chroma
Databases
Search infrastructure for AI
Apache-2.0vs Pinecone★ 29k
MongoDB
Databases
The MongoDB Database
OSSvs Amazon DynamoDB★ 29k
Valkey
Databases
A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime
BSD-3-Clausevs Upstash★ 27k
SpacetimeDB
Databases
Development at the speed of light
OSSvs PlayFab★ 25k
TDengine
Databases
High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenari
AGPL-3.0vs KX kdb+★ 25k
Dolt
Databases
Dolt – Git for Data
Apache-2.0★ 25k
TimescaleDB
Databases
A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres ext
OSSvs KX kdb+★ 24k
PostgreSQL
Databases
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we d
OSSvs Oracle Database★ 22k
Dgraph
Databases
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Apache-2.0vs Amazon Neptune★ 22k
rqlite
Databases
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highl
MITvs Cloudflare D1★ 18k
libSQL
Databases
libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.
MITvs Cloudflare D1★ 17k
Neo4j
Databases
Graphs for Everyone
GPL-3.0vs Amazon Neptune★ 17k
QuestDB
Databases
QuestDB is a high performance, open-source, time-series database
Apache-2.0vs Tinybird★ 17k
Weaviate
Databases
Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing
OSSvs Pinecone★ 17k
Apache Doris
Databases
Apache Doris is a real-time analytics and hybrid search database for AI agents.
Apache-2.0vs Snowflake★ 16k
ScyllaDB
Databases
NoSQL data store using the Seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon
OSSvs Amazon DynamoDB★ 16k
Litestream
Databases
Streaming replication for SQLite.
Apache-2.0★ 14k
ArangoDB
Databases
🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, grap
OSSvs Azure Cosmos DB★ 14k
Memcached
Databases
memcached development tree
BSD-3-Clausevs Amazon ElastiCache★ 14k
Trino
Databases
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly know
Apache-2.0vs Amazon Redshift★ 13k
Citus
Databases
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
AGPL-3.0vs CockroachDB★ 13k
MySQL
Databases
MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-tim
OSSvs Oracle Database★ 12k
NebulaGraph
Databases
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high
Apache-2.0vs Amazon Neptune★ 12k
Garnet
Databases
Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (thr
MITvs Upstash★ 12k
StarRocks
Databases
The world's fastest open query engine for sub-second analytics both on and off the data la
Apache-2.0vs Snowflake★ 12k
LanceDB
Databases
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage L
Apache-2.0vs Pinecone★ 12k
YugabyteDB
Databases
YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
OSSvs Google Cloud Spanner★ 11k
OceanBase
Databases
OceanBase is the unified distributed database for the AI era — open-source, multi-model, o
Apache-2.0vs Oracle Database★ 10k
Apache Cassandra
Databases
Open source transactional distributed database. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolera
Apache-2.0vs Amazon DynamoDB★ 10k
Databend
Databases
Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt fr
OSSvs Snowflake★ 9.5k
LiteDB
Databases
LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file
MIT★ 9.5k
CloudNativePG
Databases
The most popular Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL.
Apache-2.0vs Amazon RDS★ 9.4k
ParadeDB
Databases
One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregatio
AGPL-3.0vs Elastic★ 9.3k
RisingWave
Data Pipelines & ETL
Event streaming platform for agentic AI. Continuously ingest, transform, and serve event s
Apache-2.0vs Striim★ 9.4k
Immudb
Databases
immudb - immutable database based on zero trust, SQL/Key-Value/Document model, tamperproof
OSS★ 9k
Neon
Databases
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-lik
Apache-2.0vs Amazon Aurora★ 23k
MariaDB
Databases
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of t
GPL-2.0vs Oracle Database★ 8.3k
Databases: questions
- What is the best open-source database?
- Redis is the top-ranked open-source database on Enlisted, with 77k GitHub stars. It is followed by etcd, ClickHouse and Milvus.
- What are the best free databases?
- The top-ranked open-source databases with a standard licence are etcd (Apache-2.0), ClickHouse (Apache-2.0) and Milvus (Apache-2.0), so their code is free to use. 21 of the 63 SaaS products here have a free plan, including Databricks, Aiven and Google BigQuery.
- Which databases can be self-hosted?
- 95 of the 97 open-source databases on Enlisted can be self-hosted on your own server or computer; the top-ranked are Redis, etcd and ClickHouse.
- How are these databases ranked?
- Open-source tools are ordered by a score built from GitHub stars, star growth over the last 30 days and how recently the code changed; 79 of the 97 had new commits or a release in the last 30 days. SaaS products have no public repository, so they get a fixed baseline score. GitHub data is refreshed daily, and nobody can pay to move up.