Databases & Data

Relational, document, vector & analytics databases — plus ORMs, GUIs and pipelines.

Relational

• PostgreSQL — The beloved open-source RDBMS.
• MySQL — Widely used relational DB.
• SQLite — Embedded zero-config DB.
• Supabase — Postgres-backed backend.
• Neon — Serverless Postgres with branching.
• PlanetScale — Serverless MySQL platform.
• CockroachDB — Distributed SQL.

Document & KV

• MongoDB — Document database.
• Redis — In-memory key-value store.
• Couchbase — Distributed document DB.
• DynamoDB — AWS's managed NoSQL.
• Firestore — Firebase document DB.

Vector & search

• Pinecone — Managed vector database.
• Qdrant — Open-source vector search.
• Weaviate — Open-source vector DB.
• Chroma — Embeddable vector store.
• Milvus — Scalable vector DB.
• Meilisearch — Instant full-text search.
• Typesense — Typo-tolerant search.
• Algolia — Hosted search API.

Analytics & warehouse

• Snowflake — Cloud data warehouse.
• BigQuery — Google's serverless warehouse.
• ClickHouse — Fast columnar OLAP.
• DuckDB — In-process analytics DB.
• Databricks — Lakehouse platform.

ORMs & access

• Prisma — Type-safe ORM.
• Drizzle — Lightweight TS ORM.
• Kysely — Type-safe query builder.
• SQLAlchemy — Python's ORM & toolkit.

GUIs & clients

• TablePlus — Modern multi-DB client.
• DBeaver — Open-source universal DB tool.
• DataGrip — JetBrains' database IDE.
• Beekeeper Studio — Open-source SQL client.
• pgAdmin — Postgres admin tool.

Pipelines & ETL

• Airbyte — Open-source data sync.
• Fivetran — Managed data pipelines.
• dbt — Data transformation framework.
• Dagster — Data orchestration.
• Apache Airflow — Workflow scheduling.

Backend as a service

• Firebase — Google's app backend.
• Appwrite — Open-source backend.
• PocketBase — Single-file realtime backend.
• Convex — Realtime app data platform.
• Nhost — GraphQL backend.