Page 3 | Best Database Software with a Free Trial of 2026

Aiven

Aiven manages your open source data infrastructure in the cloud - so you don't have to. Developers can do what they do best: create applications. We do what we do best: manage cloud data infrastructure. All solutions are open source. You can also freely move data between clouds or create multi-cloud environments. Know exactly how much you’ll be paying and why. We bundle networking, storage and basic support costs together. We are committed to keeping your Aiven software online. If there’s ever an issue, we’ll be there to fix it. Deploy a service on the Aiven platform in 10 minutes. Sign up - no credit card info needed. Select your open source service, and the cloud and region to deploy to. Choose your plan - you have $300 in free credits. Click "Create service" and go on to configure your data sources. Stay in control of your data using powerful open-source services.

Starting Price: $200.00 per month

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SkySQL

SkySQL is a multi-cloud, serverless database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform designed to help businesses streamline their MySQL and MariaDB cloud database management with zero waste, instant auto-scaling capabilities, and 99.995% uptime. SkySQL offers serverless databases that save 80% of traditional database costs with pay-as-you-go pricing that scales according to demand, ensuring businesses only pay for what they use. With advanced features like SkyAI agents for building natural language interfaces to your database into your apps and providing AI-assisted performance optimization, businesses can easily handle complex workloads, minimize security risks, and accelerate AI application development. SkySQL offers both cost savings and high performance, on-demand scalability, and reliability, making it ideal for modern applications and growing businesses.

Starting Price: $28/month

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InfluxDB

InfluxData

InfluxDB is a purpose-built data platform designed to handle all time series data, from users, sensors, applications and infrastructure — seamlessly collecting, storing, visualizing, and turning insight into action. With a library of more than 250 open source Telegraf plugins, importing and monitoring data from any system is easy. InfluxDB empowers developers to build transformative IoT, monitoring and analytics services and applications. InfluxDB’s flexible architecture fits any implementation — whether in the cloud, at the edge or on-premises — and its versatility, accessibility and supporting tools (client libraries, APIs, etc.) make it easy for developers at any level to quickly build applications and services with time series data. Optimized for developer efficiency and productivity, the InfluxDB platform gives builders time to focus on the features and functionalities that give their internal projects value and their applications a competitive edge.

Starting Price: $0

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Aqua Data Studio

AquaFold, an Idera, Inc. company

Aqua Data Studio is a multiple-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for data. It provides benefits to a variety of data-centric roles, allowing them to manage a wide range of data sources. Aqua Data Studio provides scalable, cross-platform data management, supporting IT and data-centric specialists, including developers, database administrators, as well as data analysts, data modelers, and data architects. Simplifies tedious tasks involving SQL queries, data, result sets, schema, data models, files, instances, servers, as well as automation. Aqua Data Studio can be installed on the three popular operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux. The graphical user interface can display the nine of the most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Aqua Data Studio supports over 40 of the most popular data source platforms, including relational, NoSQL, as well as managed cloud data source

Starting Price: $499 per user per year

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Datanamic DataDiff

Datanamic

Datanamic DataDiff is a powerful and easy-to-use utility for data comparison and synchronization. Compare data for selected tables in two databases, view differences and publish changes quickly and safely. Flexible comparison and synchronization settings will enable you to set up a customized comparison key and to select tables and fields for comparison and for synchronization. Datanamic DataDiff can be used for data migrations, verification of (corrupt) data, data auditing etc. For each supported database, database specific comparison and synchronization routines are used. Datanamic DataDiff can be used by database administrators who work, developers, testers that need a quick, easy and reliable way to compare and synchronize database data. Datanamic DataDiff is especially useful when your organization works with multiple database types/platforms.

Starting Price: €29 month

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OtterTune

Choosing from 100s of database tuning knobs is no problem for our AI. Let it do the work for you so you can have your life back. Monitor your database performance to gain insights and automatically adjust your configuration as workloads change. Built for today’s cloud databases, OtterTune doesn’t touch any user data, but fine-tunes your DBaaS operations behind the scenes. OtterTune is not just a fancy frontend to a few tools - but a revolutionary machine learning and machine training platform that makes the database backend run in the best possible scenario, now and in the future. OtterTune uses machine learning to actively tune your database. Simply select a target objective to optimize (e.g., throughput, latency, cost) and OtterTune automatically updates 100+ configuration settings to improve that target. Don't get surprised by outages or performance drops. OtterTune monitors your database and collects metrics about your workload.

Starting Price: $550/per month

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Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

Cardett Associates Ltd

AQT is a multi-database query and admin tool designed for DBAs, developers and data analysts. It can access a large range of database types and has been specifically customized for over 30 different databases. AQT is optimized for dealing with large systems and is one of the best tools on the market for use with DB2 z/OS. Has a powerful Database Explorer window which displays more information on your database than almost any other product. A great query environment with SQL editor, SQL history, graphical query builder, table editor, data export, charting. AQT includes numerous tools that will delight your DBA - generate DDL, object compare/resync, data compare/resync, data loader, create/alter/manage objects, visual explain, system monitor.

Starting Price: $210 one-time payment

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RisingWave

RisingWave is an open-source distributed SQL database for stream processing. It is designed to reduce the complexity and cost of building real-time applications. RisingWave offers users a PostgreSQL-like experience specifically tailored for distributed stream processing. RisingWave Cloud is a fully managed cloud service that encompasses the entire functionality of RisingWave. By leveraging RisingWave Cloud, users can effortlessly engage in cloud-based stream processing, free from the challenges associated with deploying and maintaining their own infrastructure.

Starting Price: $200/month

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StarTree

StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, is a fully managed real-time analytics platform built for customer-facing applications that demand instant insights on the freshest data. Unlike traditional data warehouses or OLTP databases—optimized for back-office reporting or transactions—StarTree is engineered for real-time OLAP at true scale, meaning: - Data Volume: query performance sustained at petabyte scale - Ingest Rates: millions of events per second, continuously indexed for freshness - Concurrency: thousands to millions of simultaneous users served with sub-second latency With StarTree, businesses deliver always-fresh insights at interactive speed, enabling applications that personalize, monitor, and act in real time.

Starting Price: Free

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Zilliz Cloud

Zilliz

Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database based on the popular open-source Milvus. Zilliz Cloud helps to unlock high-performance similarity searches with no previous experience or extra effort needed for infrastructure management. It is ultra-fast and enables 10x faster vector retrieval, a feat unparalleled by any other vector database management system. Zilliz includes support for multiple vector search indexes, built-in filtering, and complete data encryption in transit, a requirement for enterprise-grade applications. Zilliz is a cost-effective way to build similarity search, recommender systems, and anomaly detection into applications to keep that competitive edge.

Starting Price: $0

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Retable

Retable is an innovative online hybrid spreadsheet and database software that streamlines data organization and collaboration. Whether you are running a small business, a large organization, or an NGO, Retable is the ideal solution for managing all your personal, business, functional, and technical information in one place. With Retable, you can work in a holistic and synchronized fashion, with all your data in one online spreadsheet. This makes it easy to coordinate, evaluate, generate, schedule, and build, all within one platform. Retable's user-friendly interface makes it suitable for small and large businesses, as well as organizations that rely on collaborative working practices. Try Retable today and experience the convenience of having all your data in one easy-to-use platform.

Starting Price: $10/month

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Bytebase

Bytebase is an open-source database governance platform for developers, DBAs, security teams, and AI agents. It helps organizations govern how databases are changed and accessed through three pillars: 1. Database Change Management — review and approve schema and data changes, automate SQL checks with 100+ rules, coordinate multi-database rollouts, and integrate migrations with GitOps and CI/CD. 2. Database Access Control — replace shared credentials and standing privileges with fine-grained permissions, just-in-time access, and dynamic data masking. 3. Database Compliance — maintain detailed audit logs showing who changed or accessed which data, what actions were performed, and when they occurred. By bringing these workflows into one control plane, Bytebase improves developer productivity while reducing operational, security, and compliance risk across major database systems and environments.

Starting Price: $0 per month

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SQLWays

Ispirer Systems

SQLWays is an easy-to-use cross-database migration tool. It allows to migrate the entire database schema, including SQL objects, tables and data from source to target databases. Smart conversion, teamwork, technical support, the tool customization according to your project requirements – all of these capabilities are combined in one solution. Customization option. The migration process using SQLWays can be customized to tailor specific business needs. Essentially, it accelerates database modernization considerably. High level of automation. Smart migration core provides a high level of automation for the migration process, ensuring a consistent and reliable migration. Code security. Privacy is of utmost importance to us. That is why we developed the tool that does not save or send the code structures it processes. With our tool, you can be sure that your data is safe, since our tool can work even without an Internet connection.

Starting Price: $245/month

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ClusterControl

Severalnines

ClusterControl is a hybrid, multi-cloud database ops orchestration platform for MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, SQL Server on Linux, Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL, and MySQL in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It handles full-lifecycle operations, from deployment to failover, backup and more. With its full suite of databases, ops features and ability to be deployed in any environment, it enables organizations to implement the Sovereign DBaaS concept. ClusterControl is perfect for organizations that need to reliably run large-scale, open-source database operations but don't want to be limited by traditional DBaaS providers in environment choice, open-source license stability, and DB access.

Starting Price: €250/node/month

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Knack

Knack is the most easy-to-use Application builder, designed for the non-developer business owner leader. Using the drag-and-drop feature, users can create intuitive apps for CRM/Lead Manager, Membership Directory, Project Manager, Inventory Manager, Quote/Order Manager or HIPAA compliant app. Existing users rave about how easy it was to take their entire app on the go, using an iOS or Android device. Larger teams with multiple admin users can also work more efficiently with the use of the collaboration function, which includes whiteboards, and tag & search tools. Finally, use the automated analytics report dashboard to monitor application usage and how your customers or staff interacts with it.

Starting Price: $39.00/month

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eXtremeDB

McObject

How is platform independent eXtremeDB different? - Hybrid data storage. Unlike other IMDS, eXtremeDB can be all-in-memory, all-persistent, or have a mix of in-memory tables and persistent tables - Active Replication Fabric™ is unique to eXtremeDB, offering bidirectional replication, multi-tier replication (e.g. edge-to-gateway-to-gateway-to-cloud), compression to maximize limited bandwidth networks and more - Row & Columnar Flexibility for Time Series Data supports database designs that combine row-based and column-based layouts, in order to best leverage the CPU cache speed - Embedded and Client/Server. Fast, flexible eXtremeDB is data management wherever you need it, and can be deployed as an embedded database system, and/or as a client/server database system -A hard real-time deterministic option in eXtremeDB/rt Designed for use in resource-constrained, mission-critical embedded systems. Found in everything from routers to satellites to trains to stock markets worldwide

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Rethink Workflow

Rethink Workflow, Inc.

Rethink Workflow is a free, simple, powerful, and secure business process automation tool that allows NGOs, businesses, and enterprises to create forms and design workflows online.

Starting Price: $2.99/month/user

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SQL Safe Backup

IDERA

SQL Safe Backup helps database administrators to back up and recover instantly across Microsoft SQL Servers. Unlike its competition, it provides virtual databases with access to back up files without consuming disk space, instant restore, centralized management across Microsoft SQL Servers, and alert notifications for success and failure of operations.

Starting Price: $1,036.00 per instance

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SQL Compliance Manager

IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

SQL Compliance Manager helps database administrators to monitor, audit, and alert on SQL Server user activity and data changes. Unlike its competition, it provides quick configuration of audit settings, a broad list of regulatory guideline templates for audit settings and reports, before and after data values for both regulatory compliance and forensic data investigations, differentiation of data access and between regular and privileged users and applications, easy specification of and reporting on sensitive data columns access and changes, and extensive customization of audit settings for databases and servers.

Starting Price: $3,036.00 per instance

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Full Convert

Spectral Core

The easiest way to copy your data to another database. We support all popular databases - ancient, modern, file-based, relational, on-premise, cloud databases. Our software is battle-tested and highly optimized. If you have large databases, use our Ultimate version to copy many tables in parallel. Considering rolling out your own scripts? That's a significant risk of data errors and omissions. Developer time is expensive - use our expertise instead. Our software is battle-tested and highly optimized. If you have large databases, use our Ultimate version to copy many tables in parallel. Our software is designed to shield you from complexity of underlying databases. While you have powerful mapping and customization features at your disposal, your data will be migrated out of the box with no customization needed.

Starting Price: $299 one-time payment

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SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance problems in physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Unlike its competition, it provides effective scalability, advanced SQL query analysis and optimization, prescriptive analysis with corrective SQL scripts, powerful automated alert responses, broad PowerShell integration, complete customization, and extensive support for current and legacy SQL Server and Windows.

Starting Price: $1,996 per instance

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SQL Sentry

SolarWinds

Stop wasting time trying to fix SQL Server performance problems. Are you constantly fighting database performance fires, looking in vain for the root cause of SQL Server slowdowns? Without the right information, you could waste valuable time looking in the wrong places for the answers to your performance problems. You need accurate, actionable, detailed metrics to quickly identify and address database problems. With SQL Sentry, you can effectively monitor, diagnose, and optimize your entire database environment. SQL Sentry helps you get out of fire-fighting mode so you can keep your databases running continuously at peak performance. SQL Sentry gives you the level of detail you need to find and fix SQL Server performance problems. SQL Sentry is the flagship product in the SentryOne monitoring solutions set, and was built by SQL Server experts to help you save time and frustration in troubleshooting database performance problems.

Starting Price: $1,628

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DreamFactory

DreamFactory Software

DreamFactory Software is the fastest way to build secure, internal REST APIs. Instantly generate APIs from any database with built-in enterprise security controls that operates on-premises, air-gapped, or in the cloud. Develop 4x faster, save 70% on new projects, remove project management uncertainty, focus talent on truly critical issues, win more clients, and integrate with newer & legacy technologies instantly as needed. DreamFactory is the easiest and fastest way to automatically generate, publish, manage, and secure REST APIs, convert SOAP to REST, and aggregate disparate data sources through a single API platform. See why companies like Disney, Bosch, Netgear, T-Mobile, Intel, and many more are embracing DreamFactory's innovative platform to get a competitive edge. Start a hosted trial or talk to our engineers to get access to an on-prem environment!

Starting Price: $1500/month

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NCache

Alachisoft

NCache is an open source distributed cache for .NET Framework & .NET Core (released under Apache License, Version 2.0), by Alachisoft. NCache provides an extremely fast and linearly scalable distributed cache that caches application data and reduces expensive database trips. Organizations use NCache to remove performance bottlenecks related to their data storage and databases and can scale their .NET and Java applications to extreme transaction processing (XTP). NCache Open Source gives the .NET developer community unrestricted access to the industry’s oldest and most popular distributed cache. Due to its Open Source nature .NET developers finally have complete access to a truly elastic .NET distributed cache that fits in nicely with their application’s .NET stack. Alachisoft is the market leader since 2003 through its product NCache. Founded in 1996 as a software development services company, Alachisoft transitioned to a product company in 2003

Starting Price: $995.00

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TablePlus

TablePlus InC

Modern, native client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, Cassandra, Snowflake, Oracle, Redis.

Starting Price: $59.00

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Instaclustr

Instaclustr is the Open Source-as-a-Service company, delivering reliability at scale. We operate an automated, proven, and trusted managed environment, providing database, analytics, search, and messaging. We enable companies to focus internal development and operational resources on building cutting edge customer-facing applications. Instaclustr works with cloud providers including AWS, Heroku, Azure, IBM Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform. The company has SOC 2 certification and provides 24/7 customer support.

Starting Price: $20 per node per month

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RavenDB

RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID) across your database and throughout your cluster. At a fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO), our open source distributed database offers high availability and high performance with zero administration. It is designed as an easy to use all-in-one database which minimizes the need for third party addons, tools, or support to boost developer productivity and get your project into production fast. You can setup and secure a data cluster in minutes and deploy in the cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid environment. RavenDB offers a Database as a Service solution, allowing you to pass on all your database operations to us so you can focus exclusively on your application. RavenDB has a built-in storage engine, Voron, that operates at speeds up to 1 million reads per second and 150,000 writes per second on a single node using simple commodity hardware to increase your application’s performance.

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pgDash

RapidLoop

RapidLoop provides a range of monitoring solutions. pgDash is a comprehensive monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics. pgDash is available in both SaaS and self-hosted / on-premise versions. If you are looking for an all-in-one server, service, and database monitoring solution, check out OpsDash. OpsDash, SaaS or self-hosted / on-premise, provides a reliable, easy to use, cost-effective monitoring solution whether you have a few or a few hundred servers. pgDash: pgDash is a comprehensive solution for monitoring PostgreSQL. It includes in-depth PostgreSQL metrics collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics, along with alerting and baselines. Find out more at pgdash.io. OpsDash is available as a self-hosted solution for monitoring servers, services, and databases.

Starting Price: $100 per month

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migVisor

NAYA Tech

migVisor by EPAM is a first-of-its-kind cloud migration assessment product that helps companies analyze database environments and generate a visual cloud migration roadmap to accelerate database migration to the cloud. As companies embark on a digital transformation journey which includes application modernization and embracing cloud-native technologies, they look for ways to move out of traditional commercial databases and onto next-generation database technologies. The database aspects of building a cloud strategy are very complicated and usually require specific knowledge and expertise in re-factoring and re-platforming large monolithic source databases. The potential benefits of choosing the right migration strategy out of commercial databases is vast and includes reducing database license and IT costs, breaking vendor lock-in, adopting a modern cloud architecture and more.

Starting Price: $199 per month

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WinSQL

Synametrics Technologies

WinSQL is a powerful universal database management tool that is used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies and more than a million programmers and DBAs around the globe. WinSQL is a generic querying tool that connects to any relational database (RDBMS) for which an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver is available, virtually all RDBMS on the market today. Connect to a variety of databases, including: heavy duty vendors Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix to lightweight backends like MS Access, DBase, and Text File. Generate royalty-free executables that can be used by your business users to run queries. These can be either static or dynamic queries that pull fresh data from the back-end. Export or simply open any query results into MS Excel with just a click of your mouse. You can even import an existing Excel spreadsheet to a database table by simply dragging an *.XSL file in the catalog tree.

Starting Price: $99.00/year/user

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Best Database Software with a Free Trial - Page 3

Compare the Top Database Software with a Free Trial as of November 2026 - Page 3

Aiven

SkySQL

InfluxDB

Aqua Data Studio

Datanamic DataDiff

OtterTune

Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

RisingWave

StarTree

Zilliz Cloud

Retable

Bytebase

SQLWays

ClusterControl

Knack

eXtremeDB

Rethink Workflow

SQL Safe Backup

SQL Compliance Manager

Full Convert

SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

SQL Sentry

DreamFactory

NCache

TablePlus

Instaclustr

RavenDB

pgDash

migVisor

WinSQL

Best Database Software with a Free Trial - Page 3

Compare the Top Database Software with a Free Trial as of November 2026 - Page 3

Aiven

SkySQL

InfluxDB

Aqua Data Studio

Datanamic DataDiff

OtterTune

Advanced Query Tool (AQT)

RisingWave

StarTree

Zilliz Cloud

Retable

Bytebase

SQLWays

ClusterControl

Knack

eXtremeDB

Rethink Workflow

SQL Safe Backup

SQL Compliance Manager

Full Convert

SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

SQL Sentry

DreamFactory

NCache

TablePlus

Instaclustr

RavenDB

pgDash

migVisor

WinSQL

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