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Databases we talk about

From battle-tested relational engines to purpose-built NoSQL stores — pick an engine to see every guide we have on it.

Relational

SQL Server

Microsoft's enterprise relational database engine.

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Relational

PostgreSQL

The world's most advanced open-source relational database.

17 articles →

Relational

MySQL

The popular open-source database behind much of the web.

11 articles →

Relational

Oracle Database

The long-standing heavyweight of enterprise data.

9 articles →

Relational

MariaDB

The community-developed, MySQL-compatible relational database.

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Relational

IBM Db2

IBM's enterprise relational database for mainframes and beyond.

2 articles →

Relational

Microsoft Access

The desktop database bundled with Microsoft 365.

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Relational

CockroachDB

Distributed SQL that survives node, zone and region failures.

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Relational

TiDB

MySQL-compatible distributed SQL for transactions and analytics.

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Relational

Supabase

The Postgres development platform: database, auth, storage and APIs.

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Document

MongoDB

A document database built around flexible JSON-like documents.

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Document

Couchbase

A distributed JSON document database with a memory-first design.

1 article →

Document

Apache CouchDB

The document database that syncs.

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Document

RavenDB

A fully transactional NoSQL document database.

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AzDocument

Azure Cosmos DB

Globally distributed, multi-API database on Azure.

1 article →

Document

Cloud Firestore

Serverless document database for mobile and web apps.

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Key-value

Redis

In-memory data structures at microsecond speed.

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AmKey-value

Amazon DynamoDB

Serverless key-value and document database from AWS.

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VaKey-value

Valkey

Open-source, Redis-compatible in-memory data store.

1 article →

MeKey-value

Memcached

Simple, fast, distributed memory cache.

1 article →

Wide-column

Apache Cassandra

Masterless, linearly scalable wide-column store.

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Wide-column

ScyllaDB

Cassandra-compatible wide-column store built for low latency.

1 article →

Graph

Neo4j

A native graph database for connected data.

1 article →

Time-series

InfluxDB

Purpose-built time-series database for metrics and events.

1 article →

Time-series

TimescaleDB

Time-series and real-time analytics on PostgreSQL.

1 article →

Search

Elasticsearch

Distributed search and analytics on inverted indexes.

2 articles →

Analytical

Snowflake

Cloud data warehouse with separate storage and compute.

1 article →

Analytical

Google BigQuery

Serverless, petabyte-scale data warehouse.

1 article →

Analytical

ClickHouse

Open-source columnar database for real-time analytics.

1 article →

Analytical

DuckDB

In-process analytical SQL: the SQLite of analytics.

1 article →

Vector

Qdrant

Open-source vector database for similarity search.

1 article →

Vector

Milvus

Cloud-native vector database built for billions of vectors.

1 article →

Embedded

SQLite

A tiny, serverless SQL engine inside everything.

8 articles →

Big data

Apache Hadoop

Distributed storage and processing for big data.

5 articles →

General

Database concepts, industry news and topics that span every engine.

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