Best Database Software in 2026
Updated
73 database software ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
73ranked
21free plans on this page
$0.19/molowest paid tier
3 Oct 2026last checked
| # | Platform | Score | Why | From | Free plan | Paid from | Database model | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Amazon Keyspaces | 7.4 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | No | — | — | View |
| 27 |  Microsoft SQL Server | 7.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 28 |  Apache HBase | 7.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 29 | QuestDB | 7.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 30 |  Turso | 7.3 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $4.99/mo | Yes | $4.99/mo | — | View |
| 31 | PostgreSQL | 7.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 32 |  H2 Database Engine | 7.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 33 | Amazon DocumentDB | 7.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | No | — | — | View |
| 34 | Qdrant | 7.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 35 | MariaDB Server | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 36 | Neo4j | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $65/mo | Yes | $65/mo | Property graph data model | View |
| 37 |  Weaviate | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $45/mo | Yes | $45/mo | — | View |
| 38 | Chroma | 7.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $250/mo | Yes | $250/mo | — | View |
| 39 | Amazon Aurora | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | No | — | — | View |
| 40 | Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 41 | Apache Cassandra | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | — | — | — | View |
| 42 | VictoriaMetrics | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $200/mo | Yes | — | — | View |
| 43 | Pinecone | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | $20/mo | — | View |
| 44 | ArcadeDB | 6.9 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $19.99/mo | Yes | $299/mo | — | View |
| 45 | Azure SQL Database | 6.8 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 46 |  Couchbase Lite | 6.6 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | — | — | — | View |
| 47 | IBM Db2 | 6.5 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $630/mo | Yes | $630/mo | — | View |
| 48 | SAP HANA Cloud | 6.2 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | — | Yes | — | — | View |
| 49 |  StarRocks | 6.1 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | Free | Yes | — | — | View |
| 50 | SurrealDB | 6.0 | RecognisedAPIDocumented | $0.19/mo | Yes | Free | Relational, document, graph, vector and time-series | View |
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