Compare the Top On-Premises Distributed Databases as of July 2025

What are On-Premises Distributed Databases?

Distributed databases store data across multiple physical locations, often across different servers or even geographical regions, allowing for high availability and scalability. Unlike traditional databases, distributed databases divide data and workloads among nodes in a network, providing faster access and load balancing. They are designed to be resilient, with redundancy and data replication ensuring that data remains accessible even if some nodes fail. Distributed databases are essential for applications that require quick access to large volumes of data across multiple locations, such as global eCommerce, finance, and social media. By decentralizing data storage, they support high-performance, fault-tolerant operations that scale with an organization’s needs. Compare and read user reviews of the best On-Premises Distributed Databases currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Redis

    Redis

    Redis Labs

    Redis Labs: home of Redis. Redis Enterprise is the best version of Redis. Go beyond cache; try Redis Enterprise free in the cloud using NoSQL & data caching with the world’s fastest in-memory database. Run Redis at scale, enterprise grade resiliency, massive scalability, ease of management, and operational simplicity. DevOps love Redis in the Cloud. Developers can access enhanced data structures, a variety of modules, and rapid innovation with faster time to market. CIOs love the confidence of working with 99.999% uptime best in class security and expert support from the creators of Redis. Implement relational databases, active-active, geo-distribution, built in conflict distribution for simple and complex data types, & reads/writes in multiple geo regions to the same data set. Redis Enterprise offers flexible deployment options, cloud on-prem, & hybrid. Redis Labs: home of Redis. Redis JSON, Redis Java, Python Redis, Redis on Kubernetes & Redis gui best practices.
    Starting Price: Free
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    ClickHouse

    ClickHouse

    ClickHouse

    ClickHouse is a fast open-source OLAP database management system. It is column-oriented and allows to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time. ClickHouse's performance exceeds comparable column-oriented database management systems currently available on the market. It processes hundreds of millions to more than a billion rows and tens of gigabytes of data per single server per second. ClickHouse uses all available hardware to its full potential to process each query as fast as possible. Peak processing performance for a single query stands at more than 2 terabytes per second (after decompression, only used columns). In distributed setup reads are automatically balanced among healthy replicas to avoid increasing latency. ClickHouse supports multi-master asynchronous replication and can be deployed across multiple datacenters. All nodes are equal, which allows avoiding having single points of failure.
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    eXtremeDB

    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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    RavenDB

    RavenDB

    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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    Fauna

    Fauna

    Fauna

    Fauna is a data API for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from database operations. Instantly create multiple databases in one account leveraging multi-tenancy for development or customer-facing use case. Create a distributed database across one geography or the globe in just three clicks and easily import existing data. Scale seamlessly without ever managing servers, clusters, data partitioning, or replication. Track usage and consumption-based billing in near real time via a dashboard.
    Starting Price: Free
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    TiDB Cloud

    TiDB Cloud

    PingCAP

    A cloud-native distributed HTAP database built for elastic scaling and real-time analytics in a fully managed service, with its serverless tier enabling your launching of the HTAP database in seconds. Elastically and transparently scale to hundreds of nodes for critical workloads without changing business logic. Use what you know about SQL, and maintain your relational model and global ACID transactions while coping with your hybrid workloads at ease. Equipped with a built-in high-performance analytics engine to analyze operational data without using an ETL. Scale-out to hundreds of nodes while maintaining ACID transactions. No need to bother with sharding or facing downtime. Ensure data accuracy at scale, even for simultaneous updates to the same data source. Increase productivity and shorten time-to-market for your applications with TiDB’s MySQL compatibility. Easily migrate data from existing MySQL instances without the need to rewrite code.
    Starting Price: $0.95 per hour
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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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    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    Smart DIH is an operational data hub that powers real-time modern applications. It unleashes the power of customers’ data by transforming data silos into assets, turning organizations into data-driven enterprises. Smart DIH consolidates data from multiple heterogeneous systems into a highly performant data layer. Low code tools empower data professionals to deliver data microservices in hours, shortening developing cycles and ensuring data consistency across all digital channels. XAP Skyline is a cloud-native, in memory data grid (IMDG) and developer framework designed for mission critical, cloud-native apps. XAP Skyline delivers maximal throughput, microsecond latency and scale, while maintaining transactional consistency. It provides extreme performance, significantly reducing data access time, which is crucial for real-time decisioning, and transactional applications. XAP Skyline is used in financial services, retail, and other industries where speed and scalability are critical.
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    Citus

    Citus

    Citus Data

    Citus gives you the Postgres you love, plus the superpower of distributed tables. 100% open source. Now with schema-based and row-based sharding, plus Postgres 16 support. Scale Postgres by distributing data & queries. You can start with a single Citus node, then add nodes & rebalance shards when you need to grow. Speed up queries by 20x to 300x (or more) through parallelism, keeping more data in memory, higher I/O bandwidth, and columnar compression. Citus is an extension (not a fork) to the latest Postgres versions, so you can use your familiar SQL toolset & leverage your Postgres expertise. Reduce your infrastructure headaches by using a single database for both your transactional and analytical workloads. Download and use Citus open source for free. You can manage Citus yourself, embrace open source, and help us improve Citus via GitHub. Focus on your application & forget about your database. Run your app on Citus in the cloud with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.
    Starting Price: $0.27 per hour
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    Couchbase

    Couchbase

    Couchbase

    Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides an enterprise-class, multicloud to edge database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. As a distributed cloud-native database, Couchbase runs in modern dynamic environments and on any cloud, either customer-managed or fully managed as-a-service. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases. Couchbase Server is a multipurpose, distributed database that fuses the strengths of relational databases such as SQL and ACID transactions with JSON’s versatility, with a foundation that is extremely fast and scalable. It’s used across industries for things like user profiles, dynamic product catalogs, GenAI apps, vector search, high-speed caching, and much more.
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    Apache Kudu

    Apache Kudu

    The Apache Software Foundation

    A Kudu cluster stores tables that look just like tables you're used to from relational (SQL) databases. A table can be as simple as a binary key and value, or as complex as a few hundred different strongly-typed attributes. Just like SQL, every table has a primary key made up of one or more columns. This might be a single column like a unique user identifier, or a compound key such as a (host, metric, timestamp) tuple for a machine time-series database. Rows can be efficiently read, updated, or deleted by their primary key. Kudu's simple data model makes it a breeze to port legacy applications or build new ones, no need to worry about how to encode your data into binary blobs or make sense of a huge database full of hard-to-interpret JSON. Tables are self-describing, so you can use standard tools like SQL engines or Spark to analyze your data. Kudu's APIs are designed to be easy to use.
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    RocksDB

    RocksDB

    RocksDB

    RocksDB uses a log structured database engine, written entirely in C++, for maximum performance. Keys and values are just arbitrarily-sized byte streams. RocksDB is optimized for fast, low latency storage such as flash drives and high-speed disk drives. RocksDB exploits the full potential of high read/write rates offered by flash or RAM. RocksDB provides basic operations such as opening and closing a database, reading and writing to more advanced operations such as merging and compaction filters. RocksDB is adaptable to different workloads. From database storage engines such as MyRocks to application data caching to embedded workloads, RocksDB can be used for a variety of data needs.
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