Alternatives and competitors

Sites like MySQL

The 20 closest relational database software alternatives to MySQL, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to MySQL? The closest matches are phpMyAdmin, MariaDB and PostgreSQL. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About MySQL

MySQL mysql.com

MySQL

Wikidata: Open-source relational database management system

Top 1K · #544 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit MySQL

Summary by Claude

Official site of MySQL, an open-source relational database management system owned by Oracle. It offers free Community Edition downloads, documentation, and commercial products including Enterprise Edition, MySQL Cluster, embedded licensing for OEMs, and the HeatWave cloud database service with analytics and machine learning.

Who it’s for
Software developers, database administrators, enterprises, ISVs and OEMs
Business model
Commercial licenses, support subscriptions and cloud services

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to MySQL’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

WordPressMoodleNetSuiteHugging FaceDrupalOracle Corporationsqlite.orgPostgreSQLMariaDBphpMyAdmin

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to MySQL

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MySQL, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  2. 02
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

  3. 03
    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

  4. 04
    sqlite.org Top 10K

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

  5. 05
    Oracle Corporation oracle.com Top 1K English

    Technical Difficulties

    American multinational computer corporation

  6. 06
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  7. 07
    Hugging Face huggingface.co Top 10K

    Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

    We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

  8. 08
    NetSuite netsuite.com Top 10K

    American cloud-based business management software company

  9. 09
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    Moodle challenge

    e-learning platform

  10. 10
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  11. 11
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  12. 12
    Ollama ollama.com Top 10K

    Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud

    Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

  13. 13
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

  14. 14
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English

    Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

    Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.

  15. 15
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  16. 16
    Odoo odoo.com Top 1K English

    Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo

    From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.

  17. 17
    MyOffice myoffice.ru Top 10K Russian

    МойОфис для корпораций | Безопасные офисные программы для общения и совместной работы с документами

    Российские офисные пакеты МойОфис для корпораций обеспечивают полный контроль над данными и соответствуют отраслевым стандартам безопасности. Программное обеспечение подходит для корпораций любого размера. На официальном сайте можно купить и скачать программы русской версии офиса.

  18. 18
    myworkday.com Top 10K English

    Page not found.

  19. 19
    Memcached memcached.org Top 10K

    memcached - a distributed memory object caching system

    memcached

  20. 20
    openSUSE opensuse.org Top 10K English

    openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers

    openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to mysql.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones MySQL uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What MySQL is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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