Compare the Top Relational Database for Windows as of January 2026

What is Relational Database for Windows?

Relational database software provides users with the tools to capture, store, search, retrieve and manage information in data points related to one another. Compare and read user reviews of the best Relational Database for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    RaimaDB

    RaimaDB

    Raima

    RaimaDB is an embedded time series database for IoT and Edge devices that can run in-memory. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS. Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments. RaimaDB is a high-performance, cross-platform embedded database designed for mission-critical applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing markets. It offers a small footprint, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments, and supports both in-memory and persistent storage configurations. RaimaDB provides developers with multiple data modeling options, including traditional relational models and direct relationships through network model sets. It ensures data integrity with ACID-compliant transactions and supports various indexing methods such as B+Tree, Hash Table, R-Tree, and AVL-Tree.
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    Airtable

    Airtable

    Airtable

    Organize your work your way with Airtable. An all-in-one collaboration software, Airtable combines the power of a relational database with the flexibility and ease of use of a spreadsheet. It works across platforms and devices, and syncs data in real-time. Users can choose from different formats to view the tasks at hand, including grid, calendar, Kanban, gallery, and forms.
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    Starting Price: $12.00/month/user
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    SQL Server

    SQL Server

    Microsoft

    Intelligence and security are built into Microsoft SQL Server 2019. You get extras without extra cost, along with best-in-class performance and flexibility for your on-premises needs. Take advantage of the efficiency and agility of the cloud by easily migrating to the cloud without changing code. Unlock insights and make predictions faster with Azure. Develop using the technology of your choice, including open source, backed by Microsoft's innovations. Easily integrate data into your apps and use a rich set of cognitive services to build human-like intelligence across any scale of data. AI is native to the data platform—you can unlock insights faster from all your data, on-premises and in the cloud. Combine your unique enterprise data and the world's data to build an intelligence-driven organization. Work with a flexible data platform that gives you a consistent experience across platforms and gets your innovations to market faster—you can build your apps and then deploy anywhere.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Tibero

    Tibero

    TmaxSoft

    Tibero is a relational model-based standard DBMS that has been developed with stable architecture that requires minimal resources from the design step. It allows to efficiently respond to big data processing requests from massive sessions. In addition, it provides a flexible and user-friendly development and easy operating environment based on standards and compatibility. - Multi-Process, multi-thread architecture and various data processing technologies, which support reliable and effective resource management and rapidly process multi-user requests. 1. Shared-disk based active clustering that assures high availability and reliability. 2. Development environment compatibility in compliance with standards.
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    CompareData
    Compare and synchronize sql data visually. CompareData allows you to visually compare and synchronize data between sql databases. Compare table, view or query data and see differences highlighted on the screen. Compare table metadata, generate sql sync script, use the command line and internal scheduling to automate comparison and data synchronization. • Compare data of table, query or group of tables. • Synchronize table data at row, table or group level. • Compare table metadata including columns, primary key, indices, foreign keys, triggers, permission and check constraints. • Compare stored procedures, functions and sequences, • Cross-dbms support with ODBC. • Compare resultsets of any size. • Native 64-bit application. • Multi-threaded, multi-core support. • Free for comparing data and metadata.
    Starting Price: $795 single user license
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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
    Modernize and accelerate your transaction-based applications on premise and in the cloud with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE). This high-performance SQL database server uses a relational management model to meet rising demand for performance, reliability, and efficiency in every industry. Simplify operations and reduce costs with workload analyzer and workload profiler features for built-in high availability, disaster recovery, and resource optimization. Scale transactions, data, and users and improve performance with added technology options, such as MemScale and XOLTP. Discover how reducing overhead on production databases enables Q-Free employees to focus on innovation and value-adding work. Deploy on-premise and on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Deliver high performance and availability to process mission-critical transactions.
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    IBM Cloud SQL Query
    Serverless, interactive querying for analyzing data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. Query your data directly where it is stored, there's no ETL, no databases, and no infrastructure to manage. IBM Cloud SQL Query uses Apache Spark, an open-source, fast, extensible, in-memory data processing engine optimized for low latency and ad hoc analysis of data. No ETL or schema definition needed to enable SQL queries. Analyze data where it sits in IBM Cloud Object Storage using our query editor and REST API. Run as many queries as you need; with pay-per-query pricing, you pay only for the data scan. Compress or partition data to drive savings and performance. IBM Cloud SQL Query is highly available and executes queries using compute resources across multiple facilities. IBM Cloud SQL Query supports a variety of data formats such as CSV, JSON and Parquet, and allows for standard ANSI SQL.
    Starting Price: $5.00/Terabyte-Month
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    Firebird

    Firebird

    Firebird Foundation

    Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981. The Firebird Project is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000. The Firebird Project supplies users, developers, and administrators with various kinds of documentation, from Quick Start guides to expert-level articles devoted to various aspects of Firebird.
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    IBM Informix
    IBM Informix® is a fast and flexible database with the ability to seamlessly integrate SQL, NoSQL/JSON, and time series and spatial data. Its versatility and ease of use make Informix a preferred solution for a wide range of environments, from enterprise data warehouses to individual application development. Also, with its small footprint and self-managing capabilities, Informix is well suited for embedded data-management solutions. IoT data demands robust processing and integration capabilities. Informix offers a hybrid database system with minimal administrative requirements and memory footprint combined with powerful functionality. Key features make Informix ideal for multi-tiered architectures that require processing at the device level, at gateway layers and in the cloud. Native encryption to protect data at rest and in motion. Support for flexible schema, multiple APIs and configurations.
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    advastamedia®/O

    advastamedia®/O

    Kittelberger media solutions

    Based on our advastamedia®/O product media database, we have developed a powerful system in the sectors of Product Information Management (PIM), Media Asset Management (MAM) and Cross Media Publishing. All data and media relating to product, marketing, PR and sales are managed and processed and accordingly, advastamedia®/O supports numerous print and online publishing processes. PIM and MAM systems are often used separately from each other. Each topic is extremely complex in itself. There are many challenges to mapping object dependencies, handling mass data and the diversity of outputs on the PIM side, and for handling media assets, variants, maintenance workflows and naming conventions on the MAM side (to name but a few). However, there should be no output boundaries between PIM and MAM – and increasing requirements in data quality and flexibility demand short paths and data consistency. The use of our integrated advastamedia® solution saves money, time and resources.
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    Altibase

    Altibase

    Altibase

    Altibase is an enterprise-grade, high-performance and relational open source database. A single database that delivers high-intensity data processing through an in-memory database portion and large storage capacity through an on-disk database portion. 10 times faster than conventional on-disk databases. Clients have consistently chosen Altibase over Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and others. Altibase has replaced many traditional on-disk databases in various industries that require real time solutions since 1999. Altibase now has over 650 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies with thousands of mission-critical deployments worldwide. Product maturity rich with function and feature. Altibase is open source which includes its cutting-edge scale-out technology, sharding. No license costs with flexible and competitive subscription fees. 20 years’ accumulated know-how of dealing with over 6,000 mission-critical use cases.
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    SAP MaxDB
    SAP® MaxDB™ is the database management system developed and supported by SAP SE. SAP MaxDB™ is SAP's own database. It is specifically designed to provide lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for SAP applications. SAP solutions use SAP MaxDB to store both application logic and business data. The database is a central component of any SAP solution installation and provides the basis for its reliability. Information about creating and configuring a database, monitoring, backing up and recovering data, exporting and importing data, managing users, analyzing database performance, using SQL optimizer, searching for errors, developing database applications and further activities. Tools integrated in the Computing Centre Management System (CCMS) for analyzing a SAP MaxDB database, scheduling actions and monitoring the database functions and alerts. Command line tool for database administration.
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    Dqlite

    Dqlite

    Canonical

    Dqlite is a fast, embedded, persistent SQL database with Raft consensus that is perfect for fault-tolerant IoT and Edge devices. Dqlite (“distributed SQLite”) extends SQLite across a cluster of machines, with automatic failover and high-availability to keep your application running. It uses C-Raft, an optimised Raft implementation in C, to gain high-performance transactional consensus and fault tolerance while preserving SQlite’s outstanding efficiency and tiny footprint. C-Raft is tuned to minimize transaction latency. C-Raft and dqlite are both written in C for maximum cross-platform portability. Published under the LGPLv3 license with a static linking exception for maximum compatibility. Includes common CLI pattern for database initialization and voting member joins and departures. Minimal, tunable delay for failover with automatic leader election. Disk-backed database with in-memory options and SQLite transactions.
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    MariaDB

    MariaDB

    MariaDB

    MariaDB Platform is a complete enterprise open source database solution. It has the versatility to support transactional, analytical and hybrid workloads as well as relational, JSON and hybrid data models. And it has the scalability to grow from standalone databases and data warehouses to fully distributed SQL for executing millions of transactions per second and performing interactive, ad hoc analytics on billions of rows. MariaDB can be deployed on prem on commodity hardware, is available on all major public clouds and through MariaDB SkySQL as a fully managed cloud database. To learn more, visit mariadb.com.
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    HanDbase

    HanDbase

    DDH Software

    HanDBase is a light and fast relational database manager for mobile devices which offers data entry, searching, sorting, filtering, printing and synchronization across a wide variety of desktop computers, tablets, handheld computing devices and smartphones. With HanDBase you can keep track of almost anything. Create your own custom data based applications in minutes using HanDBase and begin tracking whatever important information you need to be more productive while on the go. HanDBase is available as a separate product for many different devices and Operating Systems. Cross-platform technology makes it possible to seamlessly share database files & records with different types of devices. Forms Designer is available for some versions. Create completely custom interfaces for your records. Multi-user Syncing technology merges two or more users data into a single database / table.
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    CA IDMS

    CA IDMS

    Broadcom Inc.

    Achieve superior, cost-effective database performance with maximum flexibility using CA's proven, Web-enabled, high-performance mainframe relational database management system. Rock-solid database with reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance and cost-effective database management. Let's you more easily participate in mobile-to-mainframe initiatives, cloud, web, and analytics using open capabilities. Highly scalable to handle ever-increasing business demands, designed for efficiency and to help reduce costs. IDMS users have the ability to quickly and easily access data in order to leverage solutions that analyze system issues, automate processes and alerts, and create intelligent recommendations for tuning. Next-gen users have the ability to execute and automate IDMS administration using common tools and scripting languages. Let’s take a journey in partnership to delve into your project needs.
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