MonetDB Alternatives (January 2026)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore

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