Growth · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to VeloDB

Modern real-time data warehouse

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. VeloDB launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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QuestDB▲194
Fastest open source database for time-series and analytics
2020 · its alternatives →
2IA
InstantDB – A Modern Firebase▲1,145
Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma. Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RonDB – fast key-value database in the cloud▲112
2021 · rondb.com · its alternatives →
4
OpenEngine by Datazip ▲261
On-demand virtual warehouse to run ad hoc queries in 30 secs
2024 · datazip.io · its alternatives →
5NO
NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative▲562
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NocoDB▲472
Free & open source Airtable alternative
2021 · its alternatives →
7
Apache Doris▲7
Open-Source Real-Time Data Warehouse
2023 · its alternatives →
8AA
Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid▲361
2014 · airtable.com · its alternatives →
9RI
Restdb.io – a plug and play database service▲101
2016 · restdb.io · its alternatives →
10
PipelineDB▲62
Realtime analytics database
2014 · its alternatives →
11Q1
Query 1.6B rows in milliseconds, live▲271
2020 · try.questdb.io · its alternatives →
12
FiloDB ▲12
FiloDB-Lightweight Relational Database System
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
13EA
EasyDB – A One-Click Ephemeral Database▲158
2019 · easydb.io · its alternatives →
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FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database▲131
2017 · fauna.com · its alternatives →
15
Data Warehouses by Segment▲114
All your analytics in a Redshift or Postgres DW in minutes
2015 · its alternatives →
16
soarSQL▲98
The analytical SQL editor - powered by duckDB
2025 · its alternatives →
17
Acho 2.0▲91
No-code data warehouse for analytics
2021 · its alternatives →
18
PeerDB▲110
Fast, native ETL for Postgres
2023 · its alternatives →
19
restdb.io▲131
Simple online NoSQL database backend
2016 · its alternatives →
20
Chartbrew▲159
One dashboard to view, create and share your data
2020 · its alternatives →
21
A benchmark for analytical databases (Snowflake, Druid, Redshift)▲137
I created a web page to compare different analytical databases (both self-managed and services, open-source and proprietary) on a realistic dataset. It contains 20+ databases, each with installation and data loading scripts. And they can be compared to each other on a set of 43 queries, by data load time or by storage size. There are switches to select different types of databases for comparison - for example, only MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible. If you play with the switches, many interesting details will be uncovered. Full description:…
2022 · benchmark.clickhouse.com · its alternatives →
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Hasura GraphQL Engine▲133
Instant Realtime GraphQL on Postgres
2018 · its alternatives →
23
GreptimeDB▲72
Open-source database for large-scale time-series data
2022 · its alternatives →
24BD
BlobCity DB▲37
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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