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Best Distributed SQL Databases Tools
Explore leading tools in the Distributed SQL Databases category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
5 open-source projects · 3 SaaS products
Top open-source Distributed SQL Databases
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.
PostgreSQL
Robust, extensible relational database engine for modern applications
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YugabyteDB
Scalable PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL for cloud-native workloads
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YDB delivers a distributed SQL engine with horizontal scalability, strong consistency, ACID transactions, and built-in disaster recovery, supporting both row/column tables and PostgreSQL/Kafka compatibility.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
Understand the commercial incumbents teams migrate from and how many open-source alternatives exist for each product.
Amazon Aurora
MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible cloud relational database service offering high performance and high availability
Distributed SQL Databases
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5 alternatives
CockroachDB
Distributed SQL database designed for horizontal scale and high resilience across regions
Distributed SQL Databases
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5 alternatives
PlanetScale
Serverless MySQL platform with Git-like branching
Distributed SQL Databases
Alternatives tracked
5 alternatives
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5 open-source alternatives
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service (available through Amazon RDS) that is MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible and built for the cloud. It offers the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases at a fraction of the cost by leveraging distributed, fault-tolerant storage that can automatically scale up to 128 TB per database, with read replicas and replication for high throughput and durability.
Leading hosted platforms
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
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