RocksDB Alternatives (January 2026)

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

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

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).

Build blazing fast search and AI applications in record time.

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.

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

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

A new open source Apache Hadoop ecosystem project, Apache Kudu completes Hadoop's storage layer to enable fast analytics on fast data

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