Companies in the category 'Database'
These are companies that provide an open source database for storing and managing structured or unstructured data.
Embeddable key-value storage engine
TidesDB Corp develops TidesDB, a high-performance, embeddable key-value storage engine built on a log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) architecture. The engine supports full ACID transactions with MVCC across five isolation levels, optional object storage integration, and pluggable compression via Snappy, LZ4, and ZSTD. TidesDB can also serve as a pluggable storage engine for MariaDB through its TideSQL extension, and is compatible with Apache Kafka as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB.
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Open-source backend for real-time apps
Convex provides an open-source, backend-as-a-service platform enabling developers to build, sync, and scale real-time applications using only TypeScript. It manages database state, APIs, authentication, and workflows, eliminating frontend/backend boundaries and keeping apps automatically up to date.
Distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud apps.
YugabyteDB is an open-source distributed SQL database designed for high performance and scalability. It supports multi-region deployments and is compatible with PostgreSQL.
Self-hosted DBaaS platform for PostgreSQL
Autobase is an internal database platform for PostgreSQL that brings a managed DBaaS experience to self-hosted infrastructure. It enables teams to deploy, manage, and scale production-ready, highly available PostgreSQL clusters on their own servers, virtual machines, or cloud environments. The platform automates failover, backups, point-in-time recovery, zero-downtime upgrades, and cluster scaling through a web-based console and Ansible automation. Autobase has been actively developed since 2019 and is used in production by teams worldwide.
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Prisma provides an open-source ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) tool that simplifies database management for developers. It supports various databases and programming languages, enabling efficient data modeling and querying.
Cloud analytics database built on DuckDB
MotherDuck is a cloud database built on DuckDB, designed for efficient and scalable analytics. It aims to provide a serverless data platform that integrates with the DuckDB ecosystem, enabling users to perform complex data analysis directly on their data. MotherDuck serves enterprise customers.
Enterprise support for DuckDB & DuckLake
DuckLabs is the company behind DuckDB, an open-source in-process analytical database system designed for fast SQL-based analytics. Founded as a spin-off from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, the company provides enterprise support, technical advisory, and feature development services for teams running DuckDB in production.
Open-source fast database for search
Manticore Software Ltd. develops Manticore Search, an open-source database forked from Sphinx Search in 2017 and written in C++. It offers full-text search, vector search, and multi-model storage (row-wise and columnar) with MySQL-compatible SQL and JSON APIs. The company generates revenue through support subscriptions, professional services, and feature engineering around its open-source core.
Database DevOps tools and solutions
Redgate Software provides database DevOps solutions that help organizations manage, develop, and deploy database changes across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and other platforms. Its tools cover database monitoring, schema migrations, test data management, and compliance, enabling teams to automate and streamline the full database development lifecycle.
Distributed relational database for HTAP
OceanBase is an open-source distributed relational database developed by Ant Group, designed for mission-critical workloads at any scale. It supports hybrid transaction and analytical processing (HTAP) with a single engine, offering high availability, elastic scalability, and strong compatibility with MySQL, while delivering record-setting TPC-C and TPC-H benchmark performance.
Open-source MongoDB alternative on Postgres
FerretDB is an open-source proxy that converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, using PostgreSQL or SQLite as the database backend. It enables developers to use MongoDB drivers, tools, and query language while avoiding vendor lock-in and proprietary licensing. FerretDB Inc. offers product support, custom feature development, and consulting services for enterprise teams adopting FerretDB.
Observability DB for metrics, logs, and traces
Greptime builds GreptimeDB, an open-source observability database designed around the Observability 2.0 paradigm. Rather than treating metrics, logs, and traces as separate pillars requiring separate systems, GreptimeDB stores all three signal types as unified wide events in a single columnar engine backed by object storage. Built on Rust and Apache DataFusion, it offers native PromQL and SQL query support, OpenTelemetry compatibility, and compute-storage separation for scalable, cost-efficient deployments.
High-performance in-memory data store
Dragonfly is an in-memory data store built for modern application workloads, offering full API compatibility with Redis, Valkey, and Memcached. Its multi-threaded architecture delivers up to 25x more throughput than Redis and can run on up to 80% fewer resources, making it well-suited for high-scale caching, feature stores, and job queues. Dragonfly is available as an open-source project under the Business Source License and as a fully managed cloud service called Dragonfly Cloud.
IndexedDB wrapper with cloud sync
Dexie is a JavaScript wrapper library for IndexedDB, the built-in browser database, designed to make offline-first web application development simple and accessible. Through Dexie Cloud, the company offers a managed cloud service that adds real-time synchronization, authentication, and collaboration capabilities to Dexie.js applications without requiring any backend setup.
Distributed SQL database with AI features.
YDB is a distributed SQL database designed to handle large-scale workloads with high availability and consistency. It is built on technologies that enable horizontal scalability and strong consistency, making it suitable for enterprise applications. YDB primarily serves enterprise customers.

