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Best database engine

32 tested · top 32 shown

4 more could only be measured on fewer than five frames, so they are not ranked here — a partial average is not comparable with a full one.

Ordered by a seven-frame production-readiness benchmark measured from each product's public surface — not popularity, pricing or feature count. Nobody pays to appear here and the order is never edited. How it is measured →
How this field scores
low 63median 84best 96
  1. 1
    HeliosDB
    HeliosDB is a multi-tier database platform with PostgreSQL and MySQL compatibility.
    Perf 94
    Acce 88
    Sec 100
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 100
    heliosdb.com · measured 2026-10-31
    7/7 frames
  2. 2
    KiviDB
    Redis-compatible in-memory database with vector search for AI and real-time apps.
    Perf 99
    Acce 93
    Sec 100
    Priv 100
    Rel 75
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    kividb.io · measured 2026-11-08
    7/7 frames
  3. 3
    Layerbase
    Layerbase is a managed database platform with flat monthly pricing and no usage meters.
    Perf 93
    Acce 98
    Sec 100
    Priv 75
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    layerbase.com · measured 2026-11-07
    7/7 frames
  4. 4
    Neo4j
    Neo4j is a graph database platform with fully managed and self-managed deployment options.
    Perf 71
    Acce 100
    Sec 90
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    neo4j.com · measured 2026-10-31
    7/7 frames
  5. 5
    PlanetScale, Inc.
    PlanetScale is a cloud database platform offering MySQL-compatible and Postgres databases.
    Perf 98
    Acce 93
    Sec 45
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    planetscale.com · measured 2026-11-06
    7/7 frames
  6. 6
    Redis
    Redis is an open-source, in-memory data platform for real-time applications and AI agents.
    Sec 80
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 75
    Disc 100
    2 not assessed
    redis.io · measured 2026-10-08
    5/7 frames
  7. 7
    Swytch
    Swytch is a leaderless, Redis-compatible cache with database-level consistency.
    Perf 96
    Acce 89
    Sec 80
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 85
    getswytch.com · measured 2026-11-03
    7/7 frames
  8. 8
    MariaDB
    MariaDB offers managed and self-hosted relational database services built on MariaDB Enterprise.
    Perf 72
    Acce 88
    Sec 80
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 82
    Disc 100
    mariadb.com · measured 2026-11-01
    7/7 frames
  9. 9
    Neon
    Neon is a serverless Postgres platform with usage-based pricing and autoscaling.
    Sec 45
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    2 not assessed
    neon.com · measured 2026-11-05
    5/7 frames
  10. 10
    Upstash
    Upstash is a serverless data platform offering Redis, with pay-as-you-go and fixed pricing plans.
    Perf 52
    Acce 85
    Sec 80
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 97
    Disc 100
    upstash.com · measured 2026-10-29
    7/7 frames
  11. 11
    Polign
    polign_db is a self-hosted vector database that runs in your own cloud storage.
    Perf 93
    Acce 91
    Sec 60
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 100
    polign.com · measured 2026-11-07
    7/7 frames
  12. 12
    Spedo Engine
    Single-node in-memory RESP runtime for KV, JSON, and vector search workloads.
    Perf 99
    Acce 95
    Sec 100
    Priv 25
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 100
    spedo.dev · measured 2026-11-04
    7/7 frames
  13. 13
    Fluree
    Fluree is an enterprise AI data platform built on a verifiable knowledge graph database.
    Perf 54
    Acce 97
    Sec 80
    Priv 75
    Rel 100
    Std 97
    Disc 100
    flur.ee · measured 2026-11-04
    7/7 frames
  14. 14
    Tiger Data
    Managed PostgreSQL database service with tiered pricing for time-series and analytics workloads.
    Perf 39
    Acce 100
    Sec 80
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 86
    Disc 100
    timescale.com · measured 2026-11-05
    7/7 frames
  15. 15
    ClickHouse
    ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system
    Perf 37
    Acce 97
    Sec 100
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 94
    Disc 100
    clickhouse.com · measured 2026-10-09
    7/7 frames
  16. 16
    CockroachDB
    CockroachDB is a cloud-native distributed SQL database with multi-region support.
    Perf 70
    Acce 96
    Sec 55
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 87
    cockroachlabs.com · measured 2026-11-06
    7/7 frames
  17. 17
    Pinecone
    Pinecone is a managed vector database for building AI-powered search and retrieval applications.
    Perf 61
    Acce 96
    Sec 45
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 100
    pinecone.io · measured 2026-10-30
    7/7 frames
  18. 18
    SurrealDB
    SurrealDB is a multi-model database unifying documents, graphs, vectors, and SQL in one engine.
    Perf 34
    Acce 96
    Sec 100
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 100
    surrealdb.com · measured 2026-10-16
    7/7 frames
  19. 19
    Zilliz
    Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database service built on Milvus.
    Perf 67
    Acce 92
    Sec 70
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 100
    zilliz.com · measured 2026-10-27
    7/7 frames
  20. 20
    DuckDB
    DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database that runs on any platform.
    Perf 96
    Acce 83
    Sec 45
    Priv 25
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    duckdb.org · measured 2026-10-30
    7/7 frames
  21. 21
    Manish R Jain
    Egres is a new Postgres-compatible database built for heavy, multi-tenant workloads.
    Perf 98
    Acce 100
    Sec 45
    Priv 25
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 75
    manishrjain.com · measured 2026-10-27
    7/7 frames
  22. 22
    pgEdge
    pgEdge Starfleet is a managed Postgres platform with built-in AI tooling that runs in any environment.
    Perf 58
    Acce 96
    Sec 45
    Priv 75
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 72
    pgedge.com · measured 2026-11-08
    7/7 frames
  23. 23
    Weaviate
    Weaviate is a managed AI-native vector database with flexible cloud deployment options.
    Perf 48
    Acce 98
    Sec 45
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 73
    Disc 100
    weaviate.io · measured 2026-10-29
    7/7 frames
  24. 24
    InfluxData
    InfluxData provides time series database and telemetry management tools for infrastructure monitoring.
    Perf 51
    Acce 91
    Sec 100
    Priv 70
    Rel 90
    Std 86
    Disc 40
    influxdata.com · measured 2026-10-06
    7/7 frames
  25. 25
    MongoDB
    MongoDB is a document database platform with cloud hosting, search, and sync services.
    Perf 39
    Acce 92
    Sec 25
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 86
    Disc 100
    mongodb.com · measured 2026-11-04
    7/7 frames
  26. 26
    Chroma
    Open-source vector and full-text search infrastructure for AI applications.
    Perf 44
    Acce 94
    Sec 45
    Priv 75
    Rel 75
    Std 92
    Disc 70
    trychroma.com · measured 2026-10-28
    7/7 frames
  27. 27
    Inillucent
    Inillucent is an embedded, agentic database using SQL syntax and vector embeddings.
    Perf 65
    Acce 100
    Sec 45
    Priv 0
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 75
    inillucent.com · measured 2026-11-08
    7/7 frames
  28. 28
    Qdrant
    Managed vector search service with free, standard, and enterprise pricing tiers.
    Perf 47
    Acce 88
    Sec 80
    Priv 25
    Rel 92
    Std 67
    Disc 80
    qdrant.tech · measured 2026-11-06
    7/7 frames
  29. 29
    pgrust
    An experimental rewrite of PostgreSQL in Rust, running in the browser via WebAssembly.
    Perf 99
    Acce 95
    Sec 25
    Priv 0
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 45
    pgrust.com · measured 2026-11-04
    7/7 frames
  30. 30
    memcached
    Free, open-source distributed memory object caching system for web apps.
    Perf 99
    Acce 81
    Sec 25
    Priv 25
    Rel 100
    Std 74
    Disc 45
    memcached.org · measured 2026-11-06
    7/7 frames
  31. 31
    Pivot
    Pivot is a real-time analytical database for open data formats like Iceberg and Delta Lake.
    Perf 100
    Acce 93
    Sec 25
    Priv 25
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 15
    pivotlake.io · measured 2026-10-31
    7/7 frames
  32. 32
    Couchbase (2026)
    Couchbase is an enterprise operational data platform built for AI agents and mission-critical apps.
    Perf 52
    Acce 93
    Sec 25
    Priv 25
    Rel 70
    Std 86
    Disc 90
    couchbase.com · measured 2026-10-27
    7/7 frames
What this does not say
This ranks how production-ready each product's public surface is — not how well it does its job. For database engine, that means it does not measure the quality of the work itself. Products whose sites block automated readers are left out rather than ranked last — we did not measure them, and bottom placement would claim something we never observed. Scores are floors: anything set at a CDN, a proxy or behind a login is invisible from the public surface.

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