Best Distributed Databases

Compare the Top Distributed Databases as of October 2025

What are Distributed Databases?

Distributed databases store data across multiple physical locations, often across different servers or even geographical regions, allowing for high availability and scalability. Unlike traditional databases, distributed databases divide data and workloads among nodes in a network, providing faster access and load balancing. They are designed to be resilient, with redundancy and data replication ensuring that data remains accessible even if some nodes fail. Distributed databases are essential for applications that require quick access to large volumes of data across multiple locations, such as global eCommerce, finance, and social media. By decentralizing data storage, they support high-performance, fault-tolerant operations that scale with an organization’s needs. Compare and read user reviews of the best Distributed Databases currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Fauna

    Fauna

    Fauna

    Fauna is a data API for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from database operations. Instantly create multiple databases in one account leveraging multi-tenancy for development or customer-facing use case. Create a distributed database across one geography or the globe in just three clicks and easily import existing data. Scale seamlessly without ever managing servers, clusters, data partitioning, or replication. Track usage and consumption-based billing in near real time via a dashboard.
    Starting Price: Free
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    AllegroGraph

    AllegroGraph

    Franz Inc.

    AllegroGraph is a breakthrough solution that allows infinite data integration through a patented approach unifying all data and siloed knowledge into an Entity-Event Knowledge Graph solution that can support massive big data analytics. AllegroGraph utilizes unique federated sharding capabilities that drive 360-degree insights and enable complex reasoning across a distributed Knowledge Graph. AllegroGraph provides users with an integrated version of Gruff, a unique browser-based graph visualization software tool for exploring and discovering connections within enterprise Knowledge Graphs. Franz’s Knowledge Graph Solution includes both technology and services for building industrial strength Entity-Event Knowledge Graphs based on best-of-class tools, products, knowledge, skills and experience.
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    Azure Cosmos DB
    Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database service for modern app development with guaranteed single-digit millisecond response times and 99.999-percent availability backed by SLAs, automatic and instant scalability, and open source APIs for MongoDB and Cassandra. Enjoy fast writes and reads anywhere in the world with turnkey multi-master global distribution. Reduce time to insight by running near-real time analytics and AI on the operational data within your Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL database. Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB seamlessly integrates with Azure Synapse Analytics without data movement or diminishing the performance of your operational data store.
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    Grakn

    Grakn

    Grakn Labs

    Building intelligent systems starts at the database. Grakn is an intelligent database - a knowledge graph. An insanely intuitive & expressive data schema, with constructs to define hierarchies, hyper-entities, hyper-relations and rules, to build rich knowledge models. An intelligent language that performs logical inference of data types, relationships, attributes and complex patterns, during runtime, and over distributed & persisted data. Out-of-the-box distributed analytics (Pregel and MapReduce) algorithms, accessible through the language through simple queries. Strong abstraction over low-level patterns, enabling simpler expressions of complex constructs, while the system figures out the most optimal query execution. Scale your enterprise Knowledge Graph with Grakn KGMS and Workbase. A distributed database designed to scale over a network of computers through partitioning and replication.
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    Neo4j

    Neo4j

    Neo4j

    Neo4j’s graph data platform is purpose-built to leverage not only data but also data relationships. Using Neo4j, developers build intelligent applications that traverse today's large, interconnected datasets in real time. Powered by a native graph storage and processing engine, Neo4j’s graph database delivers an intuitive, flexible and secure database for unique, actionable insights.
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    Nebula Graph
    The graph database built for super large-scale graphs with milliseconds of latency. We are continuing to collaborate with the community to prepare, popularize and promote the graph database. Nebula Graph only allows authenticated access via role-based access control. Nebula Graph supports multiple storage engine types and the query language can be extended to support new algorithms. Nebula Graph provides low latency read and write , while still maintaining high throughput to simplify the most complex data sets. With a shared-nothing distributed architecture , Nebula Graph offers linear scalability. Nebula Graph's SQL-like query language is easy to understand and powerful enough to meet complex business needs. With horizontal scalability and a snapshot feature, Nebula Graph guarantees high availability even in case of failures. Large Internet companies like JD, Meituan, and Xiaohongshu have deployed Nebula Graph in production environments.
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