Best Real-Time Analytic Databases

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.

SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is a distributed, highly-scalable SQL database that can run anywhere. We deliver maximum performance for transactional and analytical workloads with familiar relational models. SingleStore is a scalable SQL database that ingests data continuously to perform operational analytics for the front lines of your business. Ingest millions of events per second with ACID transactions while simultaneously analyzing billions of rows of data in relational SQL, JSON, geospatial, and full-text search formats. SingleStore delivers ultimate data ingestion performance at scale and supports built in batch loading and real time data pipelines. SingleStore lets you achieve ultra fast query response across both live and historical data using familiar ANSI SQL. Perform ad hoc analysis with business intelligence tools, run machine learning algorithms for real-time scoring, perform geoanalytic queries in real time.

InfluxDB is a purpose-built data platform designed to handle all time series data, from users, sensors, applications and infrastructure — seamlessly collecting, storing, visualizing, and turning insight into action. With a library of more than 250 open source Telegraf plugins, importing and monitoring data from any system is easy. InfluxDB empowers developers to build transformative IoT, monitoring and analytics services and applications. InfluxDB’s flexible architecture fits any implementation — whether in the cloud, at the edge or on-premises — and its versatility, accessibility and supporting tools (client libraries, APIs, etc.) make it easy for developers at any level to quickly build applications and services with time series data. Optimized for developer efficiency and productivity, the InfluxDB platform gives builders time to focus on the features and functionalities that give their internal projects value and their applications a competitive edge.

Purpose-built for compute, memory, and storage efficiency, Oxla is a self-hosted data warehouse optimized for large-scale, low-latency analytics with robust time-series support. Cloud data warehouses aren’t for everyone. At scale, long-term cloud compute costs outweigh short-term infrastructure savings, and regulated industries require full control over data beyond VPC and BYOC deployments. Oxla outperforms both legacy and cloud warehouses through efficiency, enabling scale for growing datasets with predictable costs, on-prem or in any cloud. Easily deploy, run, and maintain Oxla with Docker and YAML to power diverse workloads in a single, self-hosted data warehouse.

Tiger Data is the creator of TimescaleDB, the world’s leading PostgreSQL-based time-series and analytics database. It provides a modern data platform purpose-built for developers, devices, and AI agents. Designed to extend PostgreSQL beyond traditional limits, Tiger Data offers built-in primitives for time-series data, search, materialization, and scale. With features like auto-partitioning, hybrid storage, and compression, it helps teams query billions of rows in milliseconds while cutting infrastructure costs. Tiger Cloud delivers these capabilities as a fully managed, elastic environment with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Trusted by innovators like Cloudflare, Toyota, Polymarket, and Hugging Face, Tiger Data powers real-time analytics, observability, and intelligent automation across industries.

Aerospike is the global leader in next-generation, real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale. Aerospike enterprises overcome seemingly impossible data bottlenecks to compete and win with a fraction of the infrastructure complexity and cost of legacy NoSQL databases. Aerospike’s patented Hybrid Memory Architecture™ delivers an unbreakable competitive advantage by unlocking the full potential of modern hardware, delivering previously unimaginable value from vast amounts of data at the edge, to the core and in the cloud. Aerospike empowers customers to instantly fight fraud; dramatically increase shopping cart size; deploy global digital payment networks; and deliver instant, one-to-one personalization for millions of customers. Aerospike customers include Airtel, Banca d’Italia, Nielsen, PayPal, Snap, Verizon Media and Wayfair. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with additional locations in London; Bengaluru, India; and Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to use data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance, and is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the uniqueness of your data. The winners in every industry will be data and AI companies. From ETL to data warehousing to generative AI, Databricks helps you simplify and accelerate your data and AI goals. Databricks combines generative AI with the unification benefits of a lakehouse to power a Data Intelligence Engine that understands the unique semantics of your data. This allows the Databricks Platform to automatically optimize performance and manage infrastructure in ways unique to your business. The Data Intelligence Engine understands your organization’s language, so search and discovery of new data is as easy as asking a question like you would to a coworker.

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.

Imply is a real-time analytics platform built on Apache Druid, designed to handle large-scale, high-performance OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) workloads. It offers real-time data ingestion, fast query performance, and the ability to perform complex analytical queries on massive datasets with low latency. Imply is tailored for organizations that need interactive analytics, real-time dashboards, and data-driven decision-making at scale. It provides a user-friendly interface for data exploration, along with advanced features such as multi-tenancy, fine-grained access controls, and operational insights. With its distributed architecture and scalability, Imply is well-suited for use cases in streaming data analytics, business intelligence, and real-time monitoring across industries.

In-Memory Computing Platform. The digital world is different. Microseconds matter. That's why the world's largest organizations rely on us to power their most time-sensitive applications at scale. New data-enabled applications can deliver transformative business power – if they meet today’s requirement of immediacy. Hazelcast solutions complement virtually any database to deliver results that are significantly faster than a traditional system of record. Hazelcast’s distributed architecture provides redundancy for continuous cluster up-time and always available data to serve the most demanding applications. Capacity grows elastically with demand, without compromising performance or availability. The fastest in-memory data grid, combined with third-generation high-speed event processing, delivered through the cloud.