Databases
Databases tools and applications
cassandra Installation Guide
cassandra is a free and open-source distributed NoSQL database. Apache Cassandra provides high availability with no single point of failure, serving as an open-source alternative to Amazon DynamoDB or Azure Cosmos DB
cockroachdb Installation Guide
cockroachdb is a free and open-source distributed SQL database. CockroachDB provides distributed SQL with strong consistency and survivability, serving as an open-source alternative to Google Spanner or Amazon Aurora
MariaDB Installation Guide
MariaDB is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) and a fork of MySQL. Originally developed by Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original developer of MySQL, MariaDB was created to remain free under the GNU GPL after Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. It serves as a FOSS alternative to commercial databases like Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, or IBM Db2, offering enterprise-grade features including Galera clustering, advanced storage engines, and enhanced performance optimizations without licensing costs, with features like ACID compliance, replication, and horizontal scaling.
MongoDB Installation Guide
MongoDB is a free and open-source document-oriented NoSQL database. Originally developed by 10gen (now MongoDB Inc.), MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas instead of traditional table-based relational database structure. It serves as a FOSS alternative to commercial document databases like Amazon DocumentDB, Azure Cosmos DB, or Oracle NoSQL Database, offering enterprise-grade features including horizontal scaling, replica sets, and sharding without licensing costs, with features like ACID transactions, aggregation pipelines, and full-text search.
MySQL Installation Guide
MySQL is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Originally developed by Michael "Monty" Widenius and now owned by Oracle Corporation, MySQL is the world's second-most widely used relational database management system. It serves as a FOSS alternative to commercial databases like Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, or IBM Db2, offering enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and scalability without licensing costs, with features like ACID compliance, transactions, replication, and clustering.
PostgreSQL Installation Guide
PostgreSQL is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. Originally developed at UC Berkeley as POSTGRES, it has evolved into the world's most advanced open source database, competing directly with commercial solutions like Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM Db2. PostgreSQL serves as a FOSS alternative to these expensive proprietary databases while offering comparable performance, reliability, and advanced features like JSON support, full-text search, and custom data types.
Redis Installation Guide
Redis is a free and open-source in-memory data structure store used as database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. Originally developed by Salvatore Sanfilippo, Redis (REmote DIctionary Server) is known for its performance, simplicity, and versatility. It serves as a FOSS alternative to commercial in-memory solutions like Amazon ElastiCache, Azure Cache for Redis, or Oracle Coherence, offering enterprise-grade features including persistence, replication, clustering, and pub/sub messaging without licensing costs.
Redis Installation Guide
Redis is a free and open-source in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. Originally developed by Salvatore Sanfilippo, Redis stands for "Remote Dictionary Server" and provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, and geospatial indexes. It serves as a FOSS alternative to commercial solutions like Amazon ElastiCache, Azure Cache for Redis, or proprietary in-memory databases, offering comparable performance with features like persistence, replication, Lua scripting, and transactions.
SurrealDB Installation Guide
SurrealDB is a free and open-source multi-model database designed for modern applications. It combines traditional database, document store, graph database, and real-time collaborative backend functionality. SurrealDB serves as a FOSS alternative to proprietary multi-model databases like FaunaDB, Amazon DynamoDB, or Google Firestore.