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24 alternatives to FiloDB

FiloDB-Lightweight Relational Database System

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1. 1AD
   A Database Written in Golang▲277

   Recently created a minimal persistent relational database in Go. Main focus was on implementing & understanding working the of database, storage management & transaction handling. Use of B+ Tree for storage engine(support for indexing), managing a Free List (for reusing nodes), Support for transactions, Concurrent Reads. Still have many things to add & fix like query processing being one of the main & fixing some bugs Repo link - https://github.com/Sahilb315/AtomixDB Would love to hear your thoughts

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2RF
   RonDB – fast key-value database in the cloud▲112

   2021 · rondb.com · its alternatives →

3. 3NO
   NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative▲562

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4EA
   EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database▲158

   2019 · easydb.io · its alternatives →

5. 5BD
   BlobCity DB▲37

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   NocoDB▲472

   Free & open source Airtable alternative

   2021 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   VeloDB▲7

   Modern real-time data warehouse

   2023 · its alternatives →

8. 8AS
   A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations▲426

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Collections Database▲149

   A personal database to organize anything

   2024 · collectionsdb.com · its alternatives →

10. 10TD
    Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects▲200

    2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →

11. 11VA
    voidDB – A transactional key-value DB written in Go for 64-bit Linux▲67

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12SA
    SpreadsheetDB – A database that you can query with spreadsheets▲144

    2017 · spreadsheetdb.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    BranchDB▲14

    A blazingly fast in-memory key-value database. Built in C++

    2025 · branchdb.khamitkar.dev · its alternatives →

14. 14PT
    PouchDB - The JavaScript database that syncs▲82

    2013 · pouchdb.com · its alternatives →

15. 15CP
    CaskDB – project to teach you building a key value store▲175

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16SS
    Stackby – Spreadsheets, Databases and No-code APIs in a single platform▲92

    2021 · stackby.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases▲190

    We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.

    17d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    EasyDB▲155

    A one-click ephemeral database

    2019 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Textdb▲70

    A simple way to share small amounts of data

    2020 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    ZeroDB▲119

    An open-source, end-to-end encrypted database protocol

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21AS
    A strongly-typed document DB that runs on any transactional KV store▲113

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Blober.io▲104

    The easiest way to transfer files between cloud providers.

    Jan 2026 · blober.io · its alternatives →

23. 23
    HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage▲159

    Hey HN, it’s been just over a year since we launched HelixDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975423), a project a friend and I started in college. It’s an OLTP graph database built on object-storage, with native vector search and full-text search (FTS). Why graph, vector and FTS? Graph databases provide a natural cognitive model for data, vectors allow for a semantic understanding of the entities and relationships in the graph, and FTS provides more specific filtering. Many AI-driven applications attempt to combine all of these functionalities by stitching together…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24AD
    A Database Written in C▲9

    Hey hackernews! I'd like to share a hobby and passion project I've been working on for almost a year now. It's an open-source storage engine (underlying component of a database(s)) similar to that of LevelDB/RocksDB but written entirely in C. The storage engine is called TidesDB. TidesDB is written entirely in C. It's designed as a fast, transactional key-value storage engine built on a log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) architecture. My journey with TidesDB began nearly 2 years ago whilst I was experimenting with various data structures and databases in Go. When I encountered the…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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