Best On-Premises Database Software

Teradata VantageCloud is a cloud-native database and analytics platform designed for enterprise-scale data management. It unifies structured and semi-structured data across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, enabling high-performance querying, advanced analytics, and AI/ML model deployment. VantageCloud supports ANSI SQL and integrates with popular data tools, offering an open architecture that avoids vendor lock-in. Built for scalability and reliability, it handles complex workloads while ensuring governance and security. Ideal for organizations seeking a powerful, flexible database solution that goes beyond storage to deliver actionable insights.

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.

Databend is a modern, cloud-native data warehouse built to deliver high-performance, cost-efficient analytics for large-scale data processing. It is designed with an elastic architecture that scales dynamically to meet the demands of different workloads, ensuring efficient resource utilization and lower operational costs. Written in Rust, Databend offers exceptional performance through features like vectorized query execution and columnar storage, which optimize data retrieval and processing speeds. Its cloud-first design enables seamless integration with cloud platforms, and it emphasizes reliability, data consistency, and fault tolerance. Databend is an open source solution, making it a flexible and accessible choice for data teams looking to handle big data analytics in the cloud.

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.

IBM Db2 is a family of data management products, including the Db2 relational database. The products feature AI-powered capabilities to help you modernize the management of both structured and unstructured data across on-premises and multicloud environments. By helping to make your data simple and accessible, the Db2 family positions your business to pursue the value of AI. Most of the Db2 family is available on the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform, either as an add-on or an included data source service, making virtually all of your data available across hybrid or multicloud environments to fuel your AI applications. Easily converge your transactional data stores and rapidly derive insights through universal, intelligent querying of data across disparate sources. Cut costs with the multimodel capability that eliminates the need for data replication and migration. Enhance agility by running Db2 on any cloud vendor.

SAP HANA Cloud is a fully managed in-memory cloud database as a service (DBaaS). As the cloud-based data foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform, it integrates data from across the enterprise, enabling faster decisions based on live data. Build data solutions with modern architectures and gain business-ready insights in real-time. As the data foundation for SAP Business Technology Platform, the SAP HANA Cloud database offers the power of SAP HANA in the cloud. Scale to your needs, process business data of all types, and perform advanced analytics on live transactions without tuning for fast, improved decision-making. Connect to distributed data with native integration, develop applications and tools across clouds and on-premise, and store volatile data. Tap business-ready information by creating one source of truth and enable security, privacy, and anonymization with enterprise reliability.

Hydra is an open source, column-oriented Postgres. Query billions of rows instantly, no code changes. Hydra parallelizes and vectorizes aggregates (COUNT, SUM, AVG) to deliver the speed you’ve always wanted on Postgres. Boost performance at every size! Set up Hydra in 5 minutes without changing your syntax, tools, data model, or extensions. Use Hydra Cloud for fully managed operations and smooth sailing. Different industries have different needs. Get better analytics with powerful Postgres extensions, custom functions, and take control. Built by you, for you. Hydra is the fastest Postgres in the market for analytics. Boost performance with columnar storage, vectorization, and query parallelization.

A fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service for your most demanding enterprise workloads. AlloyDB combines the best of Google with PostgreSQL, for superior performance, scale, and availability. Fully compatible with PostgreSQL, providing flexibility and true portability for your workloads. Superior performance, 4x faster than standard PostgreSQL for transactional workloads. Fast, real-time insights, up to 100x faster analytical queries than standard PostgreSQL. AlloyDB AI can help you build a wide range of generative AI applications. AlloyDB Omni is a downloadable edition of AlloyDB designed to run anywhere. Scale up and achieve predictable performance and a high availability SLA of 99.99%, inclusive of maintenance, for your most demanding enterprise workloads. Automated and machine learning-enabled autopilot systems simplify management by handling database patching, backups, scaling, and replication for you.