Compare the Top Relational Database for Linux as of March 2026

What is Relational Database for Linux?

Relational database software provides users with the tools to capture, store, search, retrieve and manage information in data points related to one another. Compare and read user reviews of the best Relational Database for Linux currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    RaimaDB

    RaimaDB

    Raima

    RaimaDB is an embedded time series database for IoT and Edge devices that can run in-memory. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS. Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments. RaimaDB is a high-performance, cross-platform embedded database designed for mission-critical applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing markets. It offers a small footprint, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments, and supports both in-memory and persistent storage configurations. RaimaDB provides developers with multiple data modeling options, including traditional relational models and direct relationships through network model sets. It ensures data integrity with ACID-compliant transactions and supports various indexing methods such as B+Tree, Hash Table, R-Tree, and AVL-Tree.
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    Percona Server for MySQL
    Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully-compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL. It provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation. With over 5,300,000 downloads, Percona Server’s self-tuning algorithms and support for extremely high-performance hardware delivers excellent performance and reliability Percona Server for MySQL delivers enterprise-grade features and higher uptime, along with a number of key benefits that improve database performance and efficiency. It provides more time to focus on key priorities, as users need to spend less time on tuning and administering. Percona is a market leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class software, support, consulting, managed services, and training for on-premise and cloud-based open source databases. Percona was founded on the belief that everyone should have access to scalable, secure, efficient, and resilient database software features, without inflated fees or vendor lock-in.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    MySQL

    MySQL

    Oracle

    MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. With its proven performance, reliability, and ease-of-use, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all five of the top five websites*. Additionally, it is an extremely popular choice as embedded database, distributed by thousands of ISVs and OEMs.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Tibero

    Tibero

    TmaxSoft

    Tibero is a relational model-based standard DBMS that has been developed with stable architecture that requires minimal resources from the design step. It allows to efficiently respond to big data processing requests from massive sessions. In addition, it provides a flexible and user-friendly development and easy operating environment based on standards and compatibility. - Multi-Process, multi-thread architecture and various data processing technologies, which support reliable and effective resource management and rapidly process multi-user requests. 1. Shared-disk based active clustering that assures high availability and reliability. 2. Development environment compatibility in compliance with standards.
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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
    Modernize and accelerate your transaction-based applications on premise and in the cloud with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE). This high-performance SQL database server uses a relational management model to meet rising demand for performance, reliability, and efficiency in every industry. Simplify operations and reduce costs with workload analyzer and workload profiler features for built-in high availability, disaster recovery, and resource optimization. Scale transactions, data, and users and improve performance with added technology options, such as MemScale and XOLTP. Discover how reducing overhead on production databases enables Q-Free employees to focus on innovation and value-adding work. Deploy on-premise and on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Deliver high performance and availability to process mission-critical transactions.
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    IBM Cloud SQL Query
    Serverless, interactive querying for analyzing data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. Query your data directly where it is stored, there's no ETL, no databases, and no infrastructure to manage. IBM Cloud SQL Query uses Apache Spark, an open-source, fast, extensible, in-memory data processing engine optimized for low latency and ad hoc analysis of data. No ETL or schema definition needed to enable SQL queries. Analyze data where it sits in IBM Cloud Object Storage using our query editor and REST API. Run as many queries as you need; with pay-per-query pricing, you pay only for the data scan. Compress or partition data to drive savings and performance. IBM Cloud SQL Query is highly available and executes queries using compute resources across multiple facilities. IBM Cloud SQL Query supports a variety of data formats such as CSV, JSON and Parquet, and allows for standard ANSI SQL.
    Starting Price: $5.00/Terabyte-Month
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    IBM Informix
    IBM Informix® is a fast and flexible database with the ability to seamlessly integrate SQL, NoSQL/JSON, and time series and spatial data. Its versatility and ease of use make Informix a preferred solution for a wide range of environments, from enterprise data warehouses to individual application development. Also, with its small footprint and self-managing capabilities, Informix is well suited for embedded data-management solutions. IoT data demands robust processing and integration capabilities. Informix offers a hybrid database system with minimal administrative requirements and memory footprint combined with powerful functionality. Key features make Informix ideal for multi-tiered architectures that require processing at the device level, at gateway layers and in the cloud. Native encryption to protect data at rest and in motion. Support for flexible schema, multiple APIs and configurations.
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    CrateDB

    CrateDB

    CrateDB

    The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Store any type of data and combine the simplicity of SQL with the scalability of NoSQL. CrateDB is an open source distributed database running queries in milliseconds, whatever the complexity, volume and velocity of data.
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    SAP HANA
    SAP HANA in-memory database is for transactional and analytical workloads with any data type — on a single data copy. It breaks down the transactional and analytical silos in organizations, for quick decision-making, on premise and in the cloud. Innovate without boundaries on a database management system, where you can develop intelligent and live solutions for quick decision-making on a single data copy. And with advanced analytics, you can support next-generation transactional processing. Build data solutions with cloud-native scalability, speed, and performance. With the SAP HANA Cloud database, you can gain trusted, business-ready information from a single solution, while enabling security, privacy, and anonymization with proven enterprise reliability. An intelligent enterprise runs on insight from data – and more than ever, this insight must be delivered in real time.
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    Altibase

    Altibase

    Altibase

    Altibase is an enterprise-grade, high-performance and relational open source database. A single database that delivers high-intensity data processing through an in-memory database portion and large storage capacity through an on-disk database portion. 10 times faster than conventional on-disk databases. Clients have consistently chosen Altibase over Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and others. Altibase has replaced many traditional on-disk databases in various industries that require real time solutions since 1999. Altibase now has over 650 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies with thousands of mission-critical deployments worldwide. Product maturity rich with function and feature. Altibase is open source which includes its cutting-edge scale-out technology, sharding. No license costs with flexible and competitive subscription fees. 20 years’ accumulated know-how of dealing with over 6,000 mission-critical use cases.
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    SAP MaxDB
    SAP® MaxDB™ is the database management system developed and supported by SAP SE. SAP MaxDB™ is SAP's own database. It is specifically designed to provide lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for SAP applications. SAP solutions use SAP MaxDB to store both application logic and business data. The database is a central component of any SAP solution installation and provides the basis for its reliability. Information about creating and configuring a database, monitoring, backing up and recovering data, exporting and importing data, managing users, analyzing database performance, using SQL optimizer, searching for errors, developing database applications and further activities. Tools integrated in the Computing Centre Management System (CCMS) for analyzing a SAP MaxDB database, scheduling actions and monitoring the database functions and alerts. Command line tool for database administration.
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    CA IDMS

    CA IDMS

    Broadcom Inc.

    Achieve superior, cost-effective database performance with maximum flexibility using CA's proven, Web-enabled, high-performance mainframe relational database management system. Rock-solid database with reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance and cost-effective database management. Let's you more easily participate in mobile-to-mainframe initiatives, cloud, web, and analytics using open capabilities. Highly scalable to handle ever-increasing business demands, designed for efficiency and to help reduce costs. IDMS users have the ability to quickly and easily access data in order to leverage solutions that analyze system issues, automate processes and alerts, and create intelligent recommendations for tuning. Next-gen users have the ability to execute and automate IDMS administration using common tools and scripting languages. Let’s take a journey in partnership to delve into your project needs.
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