Compare the Top Small Business In-Memory Databases as of May 2025

What are Small Business In-Memory Databases?

In-memory databases store data directly in a system’s main memory (RAM) rather than on traditional disk-based storage, enabling much faster data access and processing. This approach significantly reduces latency and increases performance, making in-memory databases ideal for real-time analytics, high-frequency transactions, and applications requiring rapid data retrieval. They are often used in industries like finance, telecommunications, and e-commerce, where speed and scalability are critical. In-memory databases support both SQL and NoSQL models and typically include features for data persistence to avoid data loss during system shutdowns. Ultimately, they provide high-speed performance for time-sensitive applications while ensuring data availability and integrity. Compare and read user reviews of the best Small Business In-Memory Databases currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    eXtremeDB

    eXtremeDB

    McObject

    How is platform independent eXtremeDB different? - Hybrid data storage. Unlike other IMDS, eXtremeDB can be all-in-memory, all-persistent, or have a mix of in-memory tables and persistent tables - Active Replication Fabric™ is unique to eXtremeDB, offering bidirectional replication, multi-tier replication (e.g. edge-to-gateway-to-gateway-to-cloud), compression to maximize limited bandwidth networks and more - Row & Columnar Flexibility for Time Series Data supports database designs that combine row-based and column-based layouts, in order to best leverage the CPU cache speed - Embedded and Client/Server. Fast, flexible eXtremeDB is data management wherever you need it, and can be deployed as an embedded database system, and/or as a client/server database system -A hard real-time deterministic option in eXtremeDB/rt Designed for use in resource-constrained, mission-critical embedded systems. Found in everything from routers to satellites to trains to stock markets worldwide
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    Perst

    Perst

    McObject

    Perst is McObject’s open source, dual license, object-oriented embedded database system (ODBMS). It is available in one edition developed as an all-Java embedded database, and another implemented in C# (for Microsoft .NET Framework applications). Perst gives developers the ability to store, sort, and retrieve objects in their applications with maximum speed and with low memory and storage overhead while leveraging the object-oriented paradigm of Java and C#. In the TestIndex and PolePosition benchmarks, Perst displays one of its strongest features: its significant performance advantage over Java and .NET embedded database alternatives. Perst stores data directly in Java and .NET objects, eliminating the translation required for storage in relational and object-relational databases. This boosts run-time performance. Perst’s core consists of only five thousand lines of code. The small footprint imposes minimal demands on system resources.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    DragonflyDB

    Dragonfly is a drop-in Redis replacement that cuts costs and boosts performance. Designed to fully utilize the power of modern cloud hardware and deliver on the data demands of modern applications, Dragonfly frees developers from the limits of traditional in-memory data stores. The power of modern cloud hardware can never be realized with legacy software. Dragonfly is optimized for modern cloud computing, delivering 25x more throughput and 12x lower snapshotting latency when compared to legacy in-memory data stores like Redis, making it easy to deliver the real-time experience your customers expect. Scaling Redis workloads is expensive due to their inefficient, single-threaded model. Dragonfly is far more compute and memory efficient, resulting in up to 80% lower infrastructure costs. Dragonfly scales vertically first, only requiring clustering at an extremely high scale. This results in a far simpler operational model and a more reliable system.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Amazon MemoryDB
    Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service for ultra-fast performance. Scale to hundreds of millions of requests per second and over one hundred terabytes of storage per cluster. Stores data durably using a multi-AZ transaction log for 99.99% availability and near-instantaneous recovery without data loss. Secure your data with encryption at rest and in transit, private VPC endpoints, and multiple authentication mechanisms, including IAM authentication. Quickly build applications with Valkey and Redis OSS data structures and a rich open source API, and easily integrate with other AWS services. Deliver real-time personalized experiences with the highest relevancy and fastest semantic search experience among popular vector databases on AWS. Simplify application development and improve time-to-market with built-in access to flexible data structures that are available in Valkey and Redis OSS.
    Starting Price: $0.2163 per hour
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    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures – eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is a distributed NoSQL database fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, yet is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully-supported enterprise product, and a fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) on multiple cloud providers.
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    Memgraph

    Memgraph

    Memgraph

    Memgraph offers a light and powerful graph platform comprising the Memgraph Graph Database, MAGE Library, and Memgraph Lab Visualization. Memgraph is a dynamic, lightweight graph database optimized for analyzing data, relationships, and dependencies quickly and efficiently. It comes with a rich suite of pre-built deep path traversal algorithms and a library of traditional, dynamic, and ML algorithms tailored for advanced graph analysis, making Memgraph an excellent choice in critical decision-making scenarios such as risk assessment (fraud detection, cybersecurity threat analysis, and criminal risk assessment), 360-degree data and network exploration (Identity and Access Management (IAM), Master Data Management (MDM), Bill of Materials (BOM)), and logistics and network optimization.
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    Tarantool

    Tarantool

    Tarantool

    Corporations need a way to ensure uninterrupted operation of their systems, high speed of data processing, and reliability of storage. The in-memory technologies have proven themselves well in solving these problems. For more than 10 years, Tarantool has been helping companies all over the world build smart caches, data marts, and golden client profiles while saving server capacity. Reduce the cost of storing credentials compared to siloed solutions and improve the service and security of client applications. Reduce data management costs of maintaining a large number of disparate systems that store customer identities. Increase sales by improving the speed and quality of customer recommendations for goods or services through the analysis of user behavior and user data. Improve mobile and web channel service by accelerating frontends to reduce user outflow. IT systems of large organizations operate in a closed loop of a local network, where data circulates unprotected.
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    FairCom DB

    FairCom DB

    FairCom Corporation

    FairCom DB is ideal for large-scale, mission-critical, core-business applications that require performance, reliability and scalability that cannot be achieved by other databases. FairCom DB delivers predictable high-velocity transactions and massively parallel big data analytics. It empowers developers with NoSQL APIs for processing binary data at machine speed and ANSI SQL for easy queries and analytics over the same binary data. Among the companies that take advantage of the flexibility of FairCom DB is Verizon, who recently chose FairCom DB as an in-memory database for its Verizon Intelligent Network Control Platform Transaction Server Migration. FairCom DB is an advanced database engine that gives you a Continuum of Control to achieve unprecedented performance with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). You do not conform to FairCom DB…FairCom DB conforms to you. With FairCom DB, you are not forced to conform your needs to meet the limitations of the database.
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    Kinetica

    Kinetica

    Kinetica

    A scalable cloud database for real-time analysis on large and streaming datasets. Kinetica is designed to harness modern vectorized processors to be orders of magnitude faster and more efficient for real-time spatial and temporal workloads. Track and gain intelligence from billions of moving objects in real-time. Vectorization unlocks new levels of performance for analytics on spatial and time series data at scale. Ingest and query at the same time to act on real-time events. Kinetica's lockless architecture and distributed ingestion ensures data is available to query as soon as it lands. Vectorized processing enables you to do more with less. More power allows for simpler data structures, which lead to lower storage costs, more flexibility and less time engineering your data. Vectorized processing opens the door to amazingly fast analytics and detailed visualization of moving objects at scale.
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    Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series
    Designed for easy deployment and manageability, Lenovo ThinkAgile HX combines Nutanix software with Lenovo's #1 reliable, high performing platforms. The ThinkAgile HX1021 certified node is a purpose-built Edge solution with right-sized compute and storage on a 1U height, half-width, and short-depth form factor meeting customer needs at remote locations. The condensed design of the solution allows new compute possibilities directly where data is being generated such as a retail, manufacturing units, gas stations, restaurants, healthcare, and education. Now enhanced with new second-generation Intel processors for even faster performance, the ThinkAgile HX portfolio is optimized for a broad set of virtualized workloads, including Remote Office Branch Office; file, print, and email applications; analytics; and in-memory databases. Lenovo platforms hold the highest number of performance world records and have ranked #1 in reliability for six consecutive years.
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    TcaplusDB

    TcaplusDB

    Tencent

    TcaplusDB is a distributed NoSQL data storage service designed for games. Combining high-speed memory and SSDs, TcaplusDB enables games on global and regional servers to scale and merge with no downtime, making it suitable for sustaining rapid business growth and long-tail OPS. It also comes equipped with a comprehensive set of features, including high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and rollback, ensuring 24/7 data storage with 99.999% reliability. TcaplusDB features LRU-based hot/cold data exchange for the memory and disks, data storage in SSDs, and multi-server data distribution, which guarantee maximum performance and enable a single PC server to process 100,000 queries per second. TcaplusDB can be called using APIs and provides web-based common operations such as adding, changing, and deleting tables and purging data. Moreover, OPS tasks like scaling and backup are automated.
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    RocksDB

    RocksDB

    RocksDB

    RocksDB uses a log structured database engine, written entirely in C++, for maximum performance. Keys and values are just arbitrarily-sized byte streams. RocksDB is optimized for fast, low latency storage such as flash drives and high-speed disk drives. RocksDB exploits the full potential of high read/write rates offered by flash or RAM. RocksDB provides basic operations such as opening and closing a database, reading and writing to more advanced operations such as merging and compaction filters. RocksDB is adaptable to different workloads. From database storage engines such as MyRocks to application data caching to embedded workloads, RocksDB can be used for a variety of data needs.
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