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32 alternatives to timescaledbThese products are placed in Backend-as-a-service & databases alongside timescaledb. The order reflects how much of timescaledb’s category footprint each one covers. It is not a ranking, and no company can pay to appear here.
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The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications. Supabase is open source, written primarily in TypeScript, released under Apache License 2.0. Its repository has 107.3K GitHub stars and 13.4K forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in Backend-as-a-service & databases.
Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search
TypeScript & JavaScript ORM for Node.js — supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, and more.
Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.
🔥🔥🔥 AI-driven database tool and SQL client, The hottest GUI client, supporting MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, SQL Server, DB2, SQLite, H2, ClickHouse, and more.
REST API for any Postgres database
Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases.
Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more. Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.
libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.
Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for Core Data & SQLite
A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package
20 MB lightweight cross-platform database client for 70+ databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, SQL Server, and Dameng. Built-in AI, MCP Server, CLI, desktop and Docker. | 轻量级跨平台数据库管理工具，支持 MySQL、PostgreSQL、SQLite、Redis、MongoDB、达梦等 70+ 数据库，提供桌面端、Docker、CLI、内置 AI 助手和 MCP Server。
Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs
q - Run SQL directly on delimited files and multi-file sqlite databases
Realm is a mobile database: an alternative to SQLite & key-value stores
HelixDB is an OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust on Object Storage.
Free and open source database client built natively for developers. TablePro is open source, written primarily in Swift, released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Its repository has 5.4K GitHub stars and 348 forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in Backend-as-a-service & databases.
Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL.
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.
Open-source desktop SQL workspace for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQLite and 15+ more databases like DuckDB, ClickHouse, Redis and Firestore. Built-in MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Devin, SQL notebooks and visual EXPLAIN.
Self-hosted database backup manager with a web UI. Schedule, backup, and restore MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite & Redis to S3, SFTP, Samba or local storage. SSH Tunnel support.
Database management, built for developers. veloxdb is open source, written primarily in TypeScript, released under MIT License. Its repository has 508 GitHub stars and 29 forks, and was last committed to within the last two months. Niched places it in Backend-as-a-service & databases.
Navop combines Navigate and Operation—a unified workspace that helps developers navigate and operate databases, servers, terminals, and AI tools from one place. navop is open source, written primarily in Rust, released under Other. Its repository has 171 GitHub stars and 22 forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in Backend-as-a-service & databases.
The long-standing managed app-backend incumbent.
A major developer-focused managed database platform.
Edge-replicated SQLite platform.
Serverless Redis and queues.
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