IBM Informix Alternatives (September 2025)

IBM Db2 is the database to run your mission-critical workloads. Power low-latency transactions and real-time analytics across any cloud, hybrid or on-prem.

IBM Netezza Performance Server is a data warehouse for demanding hybrid-cloud environments available as SaaS and for self-hosting through IBM Cloud Pak for Data System.

The Oracle Berkeley DB family of open source, embeddable databases provides developers with fast, reliable, local persistence with zero administration. Often deployed as an 'edge' database, Oracle Berkeley DB provides very high performance, reliability, scalability, and availability for application use cases that do not require SQL

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Small, fast, reliable database management system Persistent and/or in-memory data storage for edge-cloud, powerful for professional developers

IBM Cloudant is a fully managed JSON document database that offers independent serverless scaling of provisioned throughput capacity and storage. Cloudant is compatible with Apache CouchDB and accessible through a simple to use HTTPS API for web, mobile, and IoT applications.

InterSystems IRIS is a database management system (DBMS) that makes it easier to build machine learning-enabled applications that connect data and application silos.

Real-time analytics database for instant aggregations and hybrid search. No more need for complex indexing strategies, everything is indexed automatically. Execute ad-hoc queries, perform hybrid search effortlessly, and boost developer productivity with native SQL.

Toshiba GridDBâ„¢ is a highly scalable, in-memory NoSQL time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data.

Cloudera Operational Database is a cloud-native service that speeds up, automates, and simplifies the development and deployment of mission-critical applications.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a modular set of integrated software components for data analysis, organization and management.

VelocityDB is an easy to use, extremely high performance, scalable, embeddable and distributable object database system with indexes for C# .NET applications with a small footprint (~ 600KB).

NoSQL Database can be run in the cloud or on-premises for applications that require either flexible data models, workloads, demanding predictable, lighting fast access to data or easy to use APIs.

Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Optimized for speed in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.

MariaDB provides enterprise open source database and cloud managed database services to support scalability, mission-critical deployments, and more.

Our NoSQL Object Database manages data without the need for mapping code to store & retrieve objects in Java & C++ applications.

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management is master data management software to consolidate and govern business data. It is available for self-hosting, as managed SaaS, and in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Connect apps, services and data with the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration platform, the most comprehensive integration software solution.

Harness AI with Oracle Database 23ai to power app development and critical workloads, enhancing your data operations for free.

Aerospike provides organizations with a real-time, multi-model database that fits their needs to scale, manage cloud services, and reduce cost.

IBM Storage Suite for IBM Cloud Paks delivers secure persistent storage resources for your Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift container environments.

IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS drives operational efficiencies while increasing service agility, with a service delivery platform for cloud computing.

ScyllaDB is the distributed database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency.

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Couchbase is the NoSQL cloud database platform for business-critical and AI-powered applications. Uncompromised speed, versatility, affordability, and ease of use for building modern, AI-powered applications. ✓ Learn more.

ArangoDB is the leading multi-model database for high-performance applications. Try it now for flexible data modeling and efficient querying.

High-speed & lightweight database solution which securly stores your data privatly on-device and syncs it seamless to millions of devices

Make Big Data your biggest ally with SAP IQ software, our extreme-scale relational database management system (RDBMS).

IBM Watson Discovery is an API to search and answer questions about business documents using custom NLP and Large Language Models from IBM Research. It is available as SaaS or for self-hosting within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

IBM App Connect is application integration software that connects applications and data sources. It features a no-code interface with hundreds of prebuilt connectors, plus the ability to create custom connectors. It can be deployed on-premises, on any cloud, or as a fully managed service on AWS.

BangDB is an AI database platform with Graph and time-series data analysis. It is designed for modern use cases for edge computing

Get your ideas to market faster with a developer data platform built on the leading modern database. MongoDB makes working with data easy.

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IBM DataStage is a data integration tool that offers a visual interface for designing, developing and deploying data pipelines.

IBM Turbonomic software uses AI to optimize the performance, cost and compliance of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.

Drive faster, more reliable online transaction processing (OLTP) for less with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. The high-performance SQL database server uses a relational model to power transaction-based application on premise or in the cloud.

Designed for applications, analytics and AI, SingleStore is the world's only real-time data platform to read, write and reason on petabyte-scale data in a few milliseconds.

Optimize, modernize and cloud-enable your WebSphere applications and operations to increase efficiency while reducing costs and maximizing infrastructure utilization.

IBM Z mainframe servers and software deliver secure, reliable, and fast IT infrastructure for digital transformation.

ScaleGrid makes it easy to deploy database hosting for MySQL™, PostgreSQL®, Redis®, MongoDB®, and, Greenplum Database® on every major cloud. Try it for free!

Datastore is a highly scalable NoSQL database for your web and mobile applications.

IBM Maximo Application Suite is a set of applications for asset monitoring, management, predictive maintenance and reliability planning. It’s available as managed SaaS or deployable in any Red Hat OpenShift environment.

IBM LinuxONE is an enterprise-grade Linux server that brings together IBM’s experience is building Z mainframe systems with the openness of the Linux operating system.

Rapidly design and deploy embedded database applications that run remotely on servers, laptops, handhelds, and smartphones with SAP SQL Anywhere relational database management system (RDBMS) solutions.

Percona Server for MongoDB is a free, enhanced, fully compatible MongoDB software alternative for MongoDB Community Server with enterprise-grade features.

An in-memory, distributed, NoSQL datastore solution that lets your applications access, process, and analyze data.

Engineered to handle demanding workloads, like time series, vector, events, and analytics data. Built on PostgreSQL, with expert support at no extra charge.

IBM Watson Studio is an IDE to build, run and manage AI models. It is available as SaaS or for self-hosting as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Explore the world's fastest database and analytics platform. Data-driven organizations choose KX for faster, more confident decision making.

IBM InfoSphere Optim enables you to manage data from requirements through retirement to improve business agility, while reducing costs.

Simplify data governance, risk management and regulatory compliance with IBM OpenPages — a highly scalable, AI-powered, and unified GRC platform.

Developers love Redis. Unlock the full potential of the Redis database with Redis Enterprise and start building blazing fast apps.

IBM MQ is a family of middleware products for point-to-point and publish-subscribe messaging. MQ is available as as SaaS on IBM Cloud, as a hardware appliance, and for self-hosting, including on z/OS.

Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, open source MySQL Server alternative that offers breakthrough performance and scalability. Learn more!

IBM Event Streams is an event streaming software built on open-source Apache Kafka. It is available as a fully managed service on IBM Cloud or for self-hosting.

Store and sync data with our NoSQL cloud database. Data is synced across all clients in realtime, and remains available when your app goes offline.

Easily develop rich applications using a fully managed, scalable, and serverless document database.

HarperDB's global application platform simplifies development with one package that includes a lightning-fast database, embedded API server, and real-time global data replication. Deploy from cloud to edge to on-prem.

IBM Knowledge Catalog is software to manage and curate data, knowledge assets and their relationships. It is available as managed SaaS or within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

IBM PowerVM software is a virtualization environment that can run AIX, IBM i and Linux virtual machines on IBM Power servers.

Aiven for PostgreSQL – Managed Postgres database service with Postgres extensions, database forking, connection pooling.

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a modular set of integrated software components for operations management and automation.

QuestDB is the world's fastest growing open-source time-series database. It offers massive ingestion throughput, millisecond queries, powerful time-series SQL extensions, and scales well with minimal and maximal hardware. Save costs with better performance and efficiency.

Build blazing fast search and AI applications in record time.

Develop and deploy highscale AI-powered mobile and IoT apps with fully managed backend services.

IBM Planning Analytics is business performance management software with planning, forecasting and reporting features.

FHIR-based Healthcare Application Development. Advanced Interoperability. Unprecedented Speed. Massive Scale.

Trusted cloud-based business network to streamline, automate and fully digitize B2B transitions, augmenting the power of EDI with API capabilities.

Get started with Microsoft SQL Server downloads. Choose a SQL Server trial, edition, tool, or connector that best meets your data and workload needs.

DbVisualizer is the SQL Client and Database Tool with the highest user satisfaction. It connects to all popular databases and runs on Win, macOS & Linux.

Bring AI-native applications to life with less hallucination, data leakage, and vendor lock-in

Simplify database design and exchange data seamlessly in distributed systems.

The Enterprise PL/I compiler provides the essential tools for creating and maintaining mission-critical PL/I applications for execution on IBM Z.

A comprehensive decision automation solution that helps discover, capture, analyze, automate and govern rules-based decisions on premises or on the cloud.

SharePlex is database replication software for on-premises and cloud upgrades, migrations and high availability. Request a free trial today!

The only open source, AI-ready graph database that gives developers the tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.

Aquafold’s Aqua Data Studio is the universal integrated development environment (IDE) for databases and visual analytics.

IBM API Connect is software to rapidly create, secure and manage APIs. IBM API Connect can be deployed in any Red Hat OpenShift environment. It’s also available as SaaS in a shared or dedicated instance, and as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration.

IBM Datacap is software for the automation of document capture, recognition, classification, and processing. Datacap is available as SaaS, for self-hosting and within IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.

Exasol is leading the way in data technology with our in-memory database built for analytics. Learn how your data team can do more with Exasol.

MongoDB Atlas is the only multi-cloud developer data platform that accelerates and simplifies how you build with data. Get started for free today!

See how a managed cloud services approach helps mitigate potential tension between traditional IT management and DevOps culture.

IBM Power servers accelerate big data insights and hybrid cloud deployment with an open server ecosystem.

IBM FileNet Content Manager provides low-code tools and capabilities to help create meaningful business applications on any cloud.

TapData is a real-time data integration and data as a service platform that provides seamless connectivity with over 100+ databases, MongoDB,SaaS, and file systems.

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore

IBM SPSS Modeler provides predictive analytics to help you uncover data patterns, gain predictive accuracy and improve decision making.

Cognos Analytics is your trusted AI co-pilot for smarter analytics and confident decisions.

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

Get FREE next-gen database performance monitoring with DBmarlin. Monitor MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, CockroachDB, MariaDB, and IBM DB2 easily.

Oracle SQL Developer is a free, development environment that simplifies the management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments. It offers development of your PL/SQL applications, query tools, a DBA console, a reports interface, and more.

Experience the fastest path to graph with Neo4j. The most trusted, native graph database offers no compromise performance, reliability, and data integrity.

Securely manage your access and permissions to SQL, NoSQL, and Cloud databases with DBHawk, the all-in-one data platform by Datasparc.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Qdrant is an Open-Source Vector Database and Vector Search Engine written in Rust. It provides fast and scalable vector similarity search service with convenient API.

Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

GigaSpaces modernizes enterprise architectures to drive digital transformation with unparalleled speed, performance and scale.

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud, offering an alternative to block and file storage.