Open Source Databases & Storage Tools

Alternative toAmazon RDS for MySQL

Open source MySQL-compatible relational database server

• 8,393 GitHub stars
• GPL-2.0Licence GPL-2.0
• #Database

Alternative toCouchbase Capella

NoSQL database with multi-primary sync and HTTP API

• 6,981 GitHub stars
• Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
• #Database

Alternative toNeo4j

Distributed open source graph database for massive scale

• 5,858 GitHub stars
• Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
• #Database

Alternative toAugment AI

AI-powered codebase analysis with knowledge graphs

• 5,268 GitHub stars
• MITLicence MIT

Alternative toTablePlus

Open-source desktop SQL workspace with AI, notebooks, and MCP

• 5,253 GitHub stars
• Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
• #Database

Alternative toAzure Cosmos DB

Multi-model NoSQL database: graphs, docs, and key-value

• 4,995 GitHub stars
• Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
• #Database

Alternative toAmazon Managed Blockchain

Blockchain database with high throughput and low latency

• 4,033 GitHub stars
• Apache-2.0Licence Apache-2.0
• #Database

Alternative toSmugMug

Self-hosted photo library with albums, controls, and plugins

• 3,869 GitHub stars
• GPL-2.0Licence GPL-2.0

Alternative toAmazon S3

Decentralized S3 storage with end-to-end client-side encryption

• 3,282 GitHub stars
• AGPL-3.0Licence AGPL-3.0

Alternative toSqlDBM

Explore and document complex database schemas visually

• 2,191 GitHub stars
• MITLicence MIT
• #Database