IBM Informix Alternatives (January 2026)

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

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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.