Indie Databases tools

38 databases products built by independent developers and small teams.

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Baserow

Open-source no-code database and app builder

Baserow is a no-code database with a spreadsheet-like interface, automations and an app builder, offered as cloud or self-hosted.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted · Website ↗

Beekeeper Studio

Open-source SQL editor and database manager

Beekeeper Studio is a cross-platform SQL editor and database GUI for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server and more, with a free community edition.

Free plan · Mac, Windows, Linux · Website ↗

Chroma

Open-source embedding database for AI apps

Chroma is an open-source vector and full-text search database for LLM apps, runnable locally or in Chroma Cloud.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Web, API · Website ↗

ClickHouse

Open-source columnar database for real-time analytics

ClickHouse is a fast column-oriented SQL database for analytics and log data, available open source or as ClickHouse Cloud.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted, Linux, Mac · Website ↗

CockroachDB

Distributed SQL database that survives node and region failures

CockroachDB is a Postgres-compatible distributed SQL database for apps that need horizontal scale and multi-region resilience.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted, Linux, Mac, Windows · Website ↗

Convex

Reactive backend with a database, functions and sync in TypeScript

Convex is a backend platform where you write database queries and server functions in TypeScript and clients stay in sync automatically.

Free plan · Web, API, Self-hosted · Website ↗

Datasette

Open-source tool for exploring and publishing data

Datasette lets you explore, query and publish SQLite databases as interactive websites and JSON APIs, with a large plugin ecosystem.

Free · Self-hosted, Web · Website ↗

DbGate

Cross-platform database manager for SQL and NoSQL

DbGate is an open-source database client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis and others, available as a desktop or web app.

Free plan · Mac, Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted · Website ↗

Dragonfly

Redis- and Memcached-compatible in-memory data store

Dragonfly is a multi-threaded in-memory datastore that is compatible with the Redis and Memcached APIs, available self-hosted or as a cloud service.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted, Linux · Website ↗

Drizzle ORM

Lightweight TypeScript ORM with SQL-like syntax

Drizzle ORM is a headless TypeScript ORM for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite with type-safe queries and a migration toolkit.

Free · API · Website ↗

DuckDB

In-process analytical SQL database

DuckDB is an embedded columnar database for fast analytical SQL queries over local files like CSV and Parquet, usable from many languages.

Free · Mac, Windows, Linux · Website ↗

FerretDB

Open-source MongoDB alternative on top of Postgres

FerretDB is an open-source proxy that speaks the MongoDB wire protocol and stores data in PostgreSQL.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Linux · Website ↗

LanceDB

Embedded multimodal vector database

LanceDB is an open-source, embedded vector database built on the Lance columnar format for AI search and multimodal data.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Web, API · Website ↗

Litestream

Streaming replication of SQLite databases to S3

Litestream continuously replicates SQLite databases to S3-compatible storage and other targets, giving simple disaster recovery for SQLite in production.

Free · Linux, Mac, Self-hosted · Website ↗

Manticore Search

Open-source full-text search database

Manticore Search is a SQL-friendly full-text search engine that continues Sphinx Search, with columnar storage and vector search.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Linux · Website ↗

Milvus

Open-source vector database built for scale

Milvus is a cloud-native vector database for billion-scale similarity search, a graduated LF AI & Data project.

Free · Self-hosted, Linux · Website ↗

MotherDuck

Cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB

MotherDuck is a serverless analytics service that runs DuckDB in the cloud and lets local DuckDB queries combine with cloud data.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero

Neon is a managed serverless Postgres service that separates storage and compute, supporting database branching and autoscaling.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

Nhost

Postgres and GraphQL backend with auth and storage

Nhost is an open-source backend that combines Postgres, a Hasura GraphQL API, authentication, storage and serverless functions.

Free plan · Web, API, Self-hosted · Website ↗

NocoDB

Open-source spreadsheet interface on top of your database

NocoDB turns SQL databases into a collaborative spreadsheet-style app with views, forms and APIs, and can be self-hosted.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted · Website ↗

OpenSearch

Open-source search and analytics suite

OpenSearch is a Linux Foundation search, log analytics and vector search engine with dashboards, forked from Elasticsearch.

Free · Self-hosted, Linux · Website ↗

ParadeDB

Elasticsearch-style search and analytics inside Postgres

ParadeDB is a Postgres extension and distribution that adds BM25 full-text search and fast analytics to Postgres.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Web · Website ↗

pgvector

Vector similarity search extension for Postgres

pgvector adds a vector type and nearest-neighbor indexes to PostgreSQL so embeddings can live next to relational data.

Free · Self-hosted · Website ↗

Pinecone

Managed serverless vector database

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database for semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation at scale.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

Postico

Native PostgreSQL client for the Mac

Postico is a Mac app for browsing, editing and querying PostgreSQL databases, designed for both developers and less technical users.

Free plan · Mac · Website ↗

Prisma

TypeScript ORM plus managed Postgres

Prisma provides a type-safe ORM for Node.js and TypeScript, schema migrations, and a managed Prisma Postgres database service.

Free plan · API, Web · Website ↗

Qdrant

Open-source vector database for AI search

Qdrant is a vector similarity search engine written in Rust, with filtering and hybrid search, self-hosted or in Qdrant Cloud.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Web, API · Website ↗

Sequel Ace

Free open-source MySQL and MariaDB client for Mac

Sequel Ace is the community-maintained successor to Sequel Pro for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases on macOS.

Free · Mac · Website ↗

Supabase

Open-source Postgres backend with auth, storage and realtime

Supabase gives developers a hosted Postgres database with authentication, file storage, edge functions and realtime APIs. It can also be self-hosted.

Free plan · Web, API, Self-hosted · Website ↗

SurrealDB

Multi-model database for documents, graphs and relational data

SurrealDB is a multi-model database that combines document, graph, relational and real-time querying in one engine with its own SQL-like language.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted, Linux, Mac, Windows · Website ↗

TablePlus

Native GUI client for relational and NoSQL databases

TablePlus is a fast native app for browsing, querying and editing PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB and many other databases.

Free plan · Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS · Website ↗

Tiger Data (TimescaleDB)

Postgres for time-series and real-time analytics

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, develops TimescaleDB, a Postgres extension for time-series data, and a managed cloud for it.

Free plan · Web, Self-hosted, Linux · Website ↗

turbopuffer

Serverless vector and full-text search on object storage

turbopuffer is a search engine that stores vectors and text indexes on object storage for low-cost search at large scale.

Paid · API, Web · Website ↗

Turso

Hosted SQLite databases built on libSQL

Turso offers managed SQLite-compatible databases based on libSQL, with embedded replicas and many small databases per app.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

Upstash

Serverless Redis, vector, queue and workflow services

Upstash offers per-request priced serverless Redis, vector database, message queue (QStash) and workflow services over HTTP.

Free plan · Web, API · Website ↗

Valkey

Open-source key-value store forked from Redis

Valkey is a Linux Foundation project continuing the BSD-licensed Redis codebase as a high-performance in-memory key-value datastore.

Free · Self-hosted, Linux, Mac · Website ↗

VictoriaMetrics

Fast, cost-efficient time-series database and monitoring

VictoriaMetrics is a Prometheus-compatible metrics database, with VictoriaLogs for logs, available open source or as managed cloud.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Web, Linux · Website ↗

Weaviate

Open-source AI-native vector database

Weaviate stores objects and vectors for semantic and hybrid search, with built-in vectorization modules and a managed cloud.

Free plan · Self-hosted, Web, API · Website ↗

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