Best Distributed Databases

Compare the Top Distributed Databases as of April 2025

What are 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 Distributed Databases currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    SingleStore

    SingleStore

    SingleStore

    SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is a distributed, highly-scalable SQL database that can run anywhere. We deliver maximum performance for transactional and analytical workloads with familiar relational models. SingleStore is a scalable SQL database that ingests data continuously to perform operational analytics for the front lines of your business. Ingest millions of events per second with ACID transactions while simultaneously analyzing billions of rows of data in relational SQL, JSON, geospatial, and full-text search formats. SingleStore delivers ultimate data ingestion performance at scale and supports built in batch loading and real time data pipelines. SingleStore lets you achieve ultra fast query response across both live and historical data using familiar ANSI SQL. Perform ad hoc analysis with business intelligence tools, run machine learning algorithms for real-time scoring, perform geoanalytic queries in real time.
    Starting Price: $0.69 per hour
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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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    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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    Aerospike

    Aerospike

    Aerospike

    Aerospike is the global leader in next-generation, real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale. Aerospike enterprises overcome seemingly impossible data bottlenecks to compete and win with a fraction of the infrastructure complexity and cost of legacy NoSQL databases. Aerospike’s patented Hybrid Memory Architecture™ delivers an unbreakable competitive advantage by unlocking the full potential of modern hardware, delivering previously unimaginable value from vast amounts of data at the edge, to the core and in the cloud. Aerospike empowers customers to instantly fight fraud; dramatically increase shopping cart size; deploy global digital payment networks; and deliver instant, one-to-one personalization for millions of customers. Aerospike customers include Airtel, Banca d’Italia, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media and Wayfair. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with additional locations in London; Bengaluru, India; and Tel Aviv, Israel.
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    GridGain

    GridGain

    GridGain Systems

    The enterprise-grade platform built on Apache Ignite that provides in-memory speed and massive scalability for data-intensive applications and real-time data access across datastores and applications. Upgrade from Ignite to GridGain with no code changes and deploy your clusters securely at global scale with zero downtime. Perform rolling upgrades of your production clusters with no impact on application availability. Replicate across globally distributed data centers to load balance workloads and prevent downtime from regional outages. Secure your data at rest and in motion, and ensure compliance with security and privacy standards. Easily integrate with your organization's authentication and authorization system. Enable full data and user activity auditing. Create automated schedules for full and incremental backups. Restore your cluster to the last stable state with snapshots and point-in-time recovery.
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    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures – eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is a distributed NoSQL database fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, yet is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully-supported enterprise product, and a fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) on multiple cloud providers.
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    Tarantool

    Tarantool

    Tarantool

    Corporations need a way to ensure uninterrupted operation of their systems, high speed of data processing, and reliability of storage. The in-memory technologies have proven themselves well in solving these problems. For more than 10 years, Tarantool has been helping companies all over the world build smart caches, data marts, and golden client profiles while saving server capacity. Reduce the cost of storing credentials compared to siloed solutions and improve the service and security of client applications. Reduce data management costs of maintaining a large number of disparate systems that store customer identities. Increase sales by improving the speed and quality of customer recommendations for goods or services through the analysis of user behavior and user data. Improve mobile and web channel service by accelerating frontends to reduce user outflow. IT systems of large organizations operate in a closed loop of a local network, where data circulates unprotected.
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    VoltDB

    VoltDB

    VoltDB

    Volt Active Data is a data platform built to make your entire tech stack leaner, faster, and less expensive, so that your applications (and your company) can scale seamlessly to meet the ultra-low latency SLAs of 5G, IoT, edge computing, and whatever comes next. Designed to augment your existing big data investments, such as NoSQL, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Kafka, and traditional databases or data warehouses, Volt Active Data replaces the various layers typically required to make contextual decisions on streaming data with a single, unified layer that can handle ingest to action in less than 10 milliseconds. The world is full of data that’s generated, stored, forgotten, and then deleted. “Active Data” is data that needs to be acted on immediately to gain business value from it. There are lots of traditional and NoSQL data storage products that you can use to keep such data. There’s also data that you can make money from, if only you can act on it fast enough to ‘influence the moment’.
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    Hazelcast

    Hazelcast

    Hazelcast

    In-Memory Computing Platform. The digital world is different. Microseconds matter. That's why the world's largest organizations rely on us to power their most time-sensitive applications at scale. New data-enabled applications can deliver transformative business power – if they meet today’s requirement of immediacy. Hazelcast solutions complement virtually any database to deliver results that are significantly faster than a traditional system of record. Hazelcast’s distributed architecture provides redundancy for continuous cluster up-time and always available data to serve the most demanding applications. Capacity grows elastically with demand, without compromising performance or availability. The fastest in-memory data grid, combined with third-generation high-speed event processing, delivered through the cloud.
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    Apache Geode
    Build high-speed, data-intensive applications that elastically meet performance requirements at any scale. Take advantage of Apache Geode's unique technology that blends advanced techniques for data replication, partitioning and distributed processing. Apache Geode provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing. Data can easily be partitioned (sharded) or replicated between nodes allowing performance to scale as needed. Durability is ensured through redundant in-memory copies and disk-based persistence. Super fast write-ahead-logging (WAL) persistence with a shared-nothing architecture that is optimized for fast parallel recovery of nodes or an entire cluster.
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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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    Apache Ignite

    Apache Ignite

    Apache Ignite

    Use Ignite as a traditional SQL database by leveraging JDBC drivers, ODBC drivers, or the native SQL APIs that are available for Java, C#, C++, Python, and other programming languages. Seamlessly join, group, aggregate, and order your distributed in-memory and on-disk data. Accelerate your existing applications by 100x using Ignite as an in-memory cache or in-memory data grid that is deployed over one or more external databases. Think of a cache that you can query with SQL, transact, and compute on. Build modern applications that support transactional and analytical workloads by using Ignite as a database that scales beyond the available memory capacity. Ignite allocates memory for your hot data and goes to disk whenever applications query cold records. Execute kilobyte-size custom code over petabytes of data. Turn your Ignite database into a distributed supercomputer for low-latency calculations, complex analytics, and machine learning.
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