Compare the Top Relational Database for Windows as of October 2025

What is Relational Database for Windows?

Relational database software provides users with the tools to capture, store, search, retrieve and manage information in data points related to one another. Compare and read user reviews of the best Relational Database for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    MySQL

    MySQL

    Oracle

    MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. With its proven performance, reliability, and ease-of-use, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all five of the top five websites*. Additionally, it is an extremely popular choice as embedded database, distributed by thousands of ISVs and OEMs.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
    Modernize and accelerate your transaction-based applications on premise and in the cloud with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE). This high-performance SQL database server uses a relational management model to meet rising demand for performance, reliability, and efficiency in every industry. Simplify operations and reduce costs with workload analyzer and workload profiler features for built-in high availability, disaster recovery, and resource optimization. Scale transactions, data, and users and improve performance with added technology options, such as MemScale and XOLTP. Discover how reducing overhead on production databases enables Q-Free employees to focus on innovation and value-adding work. Deploy on-premise and on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Deliver high performance and availability to process mission-critical transactions.
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    IBM Cloud SQL Query
    Serverless, interactive querying for analyzing data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. Query your data directly where it is stored, there's no ETL, no databases, and no infrastructure to manage. IBM Cloud SQL Query uses Apache Spark, an open-source, fast, extensible, in-memory data processing engine optimized for low latency and ad hoc analysis of data. No ETL or schema definition needed to enable SQL queries. Analyze data where it sits in IBM Cloud Object Storage using our query editor and REST API. Run as many queries as you need; with pay-per-query pricing, you pay only for the data scan. Compress or partition data to drive savings and performance. IBM Cloud SQL Query is highly available and executes queries using compute resources across multiple facilities. IBM Cloud SQL Query supports a variety of data formats such as CSV, JSON and Parquet, and allows for standard ANSI SQL.
    Starting Price: $5.00/Terabyte-Month
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    CUBRID

    CUBRID

    CUBRID

    CUBRID is a relational DBMS optimized for online transaction processing (OLTP) that complies with ANSI SQL standards and provides MVCC support, High-Availability (HA) capabilities, and GUI-based tools for DB management/migration. It also provides Oracle/MySQL compatibility and supports a variety of interfaces, including JDBC. CUBRID provides ease of installation and native GUI-based administration tools for developers' convenience. Multi-threaded, multi-server architecture, native broker middleware, cost-based optimizer, and intensive caching techniques for your OLTP services. Very accurate predictable automatic fail-over built-in technology, based on the CUBRID Heartbeat native engine core. Multi-volume support, automatic volume expansion, and unlimited number and size of databases/ tables/indexes.
    Starting Price: $0.01/one-time/user
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    IBM Db2
    IBM Db2 is a family of data management products, including the Db2 relational database. The products feature AI-powered capabilities to help you modernize the management of both structured and unstructured data across on-premises and multicloud environments. By helping to make your data simple and accessible, the Db2 family positions your business to pursue the value of AI. Most of the Db2 family is available on the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data platform, either as an add-on or an included data source service, making virtually all of your data available across hybrid or multicloud environments to fuel your AI applications. Easily converge your transactional data stores and rapidly derive insights through universal, intelligent querying of data across disparate sources. Cut costs with the multimodel capability that eliminates the need for data replication and migration. Enhance agility by running Db2 on any cloud vendor.
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    IBM Informix
    IBM Informix® is a fast and flexible database with the ability to seamlessly integrate SQL, NoSQL/JSON, and time series and spatial data. Its versatility and ease of use make Informix a preferred solution for a wide range of environments, from enterprise data warehouses to individual application development. Also, with its small footprint and self-managing capabilities, Informix is well suited for embedded data-management solutions. IoT data demands robust processing and integration capabilities. Informix offers a hybrid database system with minimal administrative requirements and memory footprint combined with powerful functionality. Key features make Informix ideal for multi-tiered architectures that require processing at the device level, at gateway layers and in the cloud. Native encryption to protect data at rest and in motion. Support for flexible schema, multiple APIs and configurations.
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    SAP HANA
    SAP HANA in-memory database is for transactional and analytical workloads with any data type — on a single data copy. It breaks down the transactional and analytical silos in organizations, for quick decision-making, on premise and in the cloud. Innovate without boundaries on a database management system, where you can develop intelligent and live solutions for quick decision-making on a single data copy. And with advanced analytics, you can support next-generation transactional processing. Build data solutions with cloud-native scalability, speed, and performance. With the SAP HANA Cloud database, you can gain trusted, business-ready information from a single solution, while enabling security, privacy, and anonymization with proven enterprise reliability. An intelligent enterprise runs on insight from data – and more than ever, this insight must be delivered in real time.
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    advastamedia®/O

    advastamedia®/O

    Kittelberger media solutions

    Based on our advastamedia®/O product media database, we have developed a powerful system in the sectors of Product Information Management (PIM), Media Asset Management (MAM) and Cross Media Publishing. All data and media relating to product, marketing, PR and sales are managed and processed and accordingly, advastamedia®/O supports numerous print and online publishing processes. PIM and MAM systems are often used separately from each other. Each topic is extremely complex in itself. There are many challenges to mapping object dependencies, handling mass data and the diversity of outputs on the PIM side, and for handling media assets, variants, maintenance workflows and naming conventions on the MAM side (to name but a few). However, there should be no output boundaries between PIM and MAM – and increasing requirements in data quality and flexibility demand short paths and data consistency. The use of our integrated advastamedia® solution saves money, time and resources.
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    PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL Global Development Group

    PostgreSQL is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. There is a wealth of information to be found describing how to install and use PostgreSQL through the official documentation. The open-source community provides many helpful places to become familiar with PostgreSQL, discover how it works, and find career opportunities. Learm more on how to engage with the community. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 15.1, 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18, and 10.23. This release fixes 25 bugs reported over the last several months. This is the final release of PostgreSQL 10. PostgreSQL 10 will no longer receive security and bug fixes. If you are running PostgreSQL 10 in a production environment, we suggest that you make plans to upgrade.
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    Infobright DB

    Infobright DB

    IgniteTech

    Infobright DB is a high-performance enterprise database leveraging a columnar storage engine to enable business analysts to dissect data efficiently and more quickly obtain reports. InfoBright DB can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Store & analyze big data for interactive business intelligence and complex queries. Improve query performance, reduce storage cost and increase overall efficiency in business analytics and reporting. Easily store up to several hundred TB of data — traditionally not achievable with conventional databases. Run big data applications and eliminate indexing and partitioning — with zero administrative overhead. With the volumes of machine data exploding, IgniteTech’s Infobright DB is specifically designed to achieve high performance for large volumes of machine-generated data. Manage a complex ad hoc analytic environments without the database administration required by other products.
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    Altibase

    Altibase

    Altibase

    Altibase is an enterprise-grade, high-performance and relational open source database. A single database that delivers high-intensity data processing through an in-memory database portion and large storage capacity through an on-disk database portion. 10 times faster than conventional on-disk databases. Clients have consistently chosen Altibase over Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and others. Altibase has replaced many traditional on-disk databases in various industries that require real time solutions since 1999. Altibase now has over 650 global enterprise clients including 8 Fortune Global 500 companies with thousands of mission-critical deployments worldwide. Product maturity rich with function and feature. Altibase is open source which includes its cutting-edge scale-out technology, sharding. No license costs with flexible and competitive subscription fees. 20 years’ accumulated know-how of dealing with over 6,000 mission-critical use cases.
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    HEAVY.AI

    HEAVY.AI

    HEAVY.AI

    HEAVY.AI is the pioneer in accelerated analytics. The HEAVY.AI platform is used in business and government to find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. Harnessing the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware, the platform is available in the cloud and on-premise. HEAVY.AI originated from research at Harvard and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Expand beyond the limitations of traditional BI and GIS by leveraging the full power of modern GPU and CPU hardware so you can extract decision-quality information from your massive datasets without lag. Unify and explore your largest geospatial and time-series datasets to get the complete picture of the what, when, and where. Combine interactive visual analytics, hardware-accelerated SQL, and an advanced analytics & data science framework to find opportunity and risk hidden in your enterprise when you need to most.
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    HanDbase

    HanDbase

    DDH Software

    HanDBase is a light and fast relational database manager for mobile devices which offers data entry, searching, sorting, filtering, printing and synchronization across a wide variety of desktop computers, tablets, handheld computing devices and smartphones. With HanDBase you can keep track of almost anything. Create your own custom data based applications in minutes using HanDBase and begin tracking whatever important information you need to be more productive while on the go. HanDBase is available as a separate product for many different devices and Operating Systems. Cross-platform technology makes it possible to seamlessly share database files & records with different types of devices. Forms Designer is available for some versions. Create completely custom interfaces for your records. Multi-user Syncing technology merges two or more users data into a single database / table.
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    CA IDMS

    CA IDMS

    Broadcom Inc.

    Achieve superior, cost-effective database performance with maximum flexibility using CA's proven, Web-enabled, high-performance mainframe relational database management system. Rock-solid database with reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance and cost-effective database management. Let's you more easily participate in mobile-to-mainframe initiatives, cloud, web, and analytics using open capabilities. Highly scalable to handle ever-increasing business demands, designed for efficiency and to help reduce costs. IDMS users have the ability to quickly and easily access data in order to leverage solutions that analyze system issues, automate processes and alerts, and create intelligent recommendations for tuning. Next-gen users have the ability to execute and automate IDMS administration using common tools and scripting languages. Let’s take a journey in partnership to delve into your project needs.
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    Empress RDBMS

    Empress RDBMS

    Empress Software

    Empress Embedded Database engine is the heartbeat of EMPRESS RDBMS, a relational database management system specializing in embedded database technology – from car navigation systems to mission critical military command and control, from Internet routers to complex medical systems, EMPRESS beats steadily, 24/7 at the core of embedded systems applications everywhere. Empress kernel level mr API is a unique feature of Empress that gives users access to the Embedded Database kernel libraries. This Empress API provides the fastest means of accessing Empress databases. MR Routines give the developer maximum control over time and space in developing real-time embedded database applications. Empress ODBC and JDBC APIs applications to access Empress databases in both standalone and client/server mode. Empress ODBC and JDBC APIs enable many 3rd party ODBC and JDBC capable software packages to access a local Empress database or via Empress Connectivity Server.
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