cockroachdb/cockroach Alternatives

choose when you want a direct peer with Postgres wire compatibility and strong consistency.

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

choose when you want a distributed SQL database from the Yandex ecosystem with ACID and high availability.

YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions

choose when you need a MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database with integrated analytics and vector search.

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

choose when you want to scale PostgreSQL with an extension, keeping Postgres compatibility and existing tooling.

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

choose when you need serverless Postgres with autoscaling and branching, not a self-managed cluster.

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

choose when you need a distributed SQL database optimized for HTAP and vector search.

AI-native HTAP database with Git-for-Data and built-in vector search, serving as the data and memory backbone for intelligent agents and applications.

choose when you need to shard existing databases with a middleware layer instead of migrating to a new database.

Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.

choose when you need a lightweight, fault-tolerant SQL database built on SQLite for minimal footprints.

The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.

choose when you need a simple distributed SQL database built on SQLite with object-storage backing.

Open source distributed database built on SQLite and backed by distributed file systems and object storage

choose if you need a legacy MySQL-compatible distributed database architecture.

RadonDB is an open source, cloud-native MySQL database for building global, scalable cloud services

choose if you need an older NewSQL database with ACID, though it is no longer actively developed.

KunlunBase is a distributed relational database management system(RDBMS) with complete NewSQL capabilities and robust transaction ACID guarantees and is compatible with standard SQL. Applications which used PostgreSQL or MySQL can work with KunlunBase as-is without any code change or rebuild because KunlunBase supports both PostgreSQL and MySQL connection protocols and DML SQL grammars. MySQL DBAs can quickly work on a KunlunBase cluster because we use MySQL as storage nodes of KunlunBase. KunlunBase can elastically scale out as needed, and guarantees transaction ACID under error conditions, and KunlunBase fully passes TPC-C, TPC-H and TPC-DS test suites, so it not only support OLTP workloads but also OLAP workloads. Application developers can use KunlunBase to build IT systems that handles terabytes of data, without any effort on their part to implement data sharding, distributed transaction processing, distributed query processing, crash safety, high availability, strong consistency, horizontal scalability. All these powerful features are provided by KunlunBase. KunlunBase supports powerful and user friendly cluster management, monitor and provision features, can be readily used as DBaaS.

choose when you need a SQLite-compatible distributed edge database for low-latency edge applications.

A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases.