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Databend is an open-source, Rust-powered warehouse for analytics, search, and AI workloads. It brings SQL analytics together with full-text, JSON, and vector search, supports storage across S3, Azure, GCS, OSS, R2, MinIO, HDFS, and HF, and offers more than 50 integrations. Continuous sync pipelines cover several databases and Kafka. RBAC, DAC, masking, network, and password policies address access control. Separate storage and compute, data-lake support, streaming ingestion, and hybrid deployment give teams several ways to run it.

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    CrateDB

    by CrateDB
    Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3

    Live operational analytics across varied data types — CrateDB centers on real-time operational data with time-series, JSON, full-text, vector, geospatial, and structured support in one engine.

    Free plan Visit site
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    Exasol

    by Exasol
    Free plan APILinuxMac+3

    Sovereign, high-concurrency analytics across deployment models — Exasol targets sovereign, high-concurrency AI and analytics workloads across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

    7.4 Free plan · paid from $3.30 · 30-day trial Visit site
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    InfluxDB

    Free plan APILinuxMac+3

    High-frequency timestamped data and observability — InfluxDB 3 is built specifically for high-frequency time-series data, with native SQL, InfluxQL, Python processing, and compressed Parquet object storage.

    Free plan · paid from $0.00 · 30-day trial Visit site
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    QuestDB

    by QuestDB
    Free plan APILinuxMac+3

    Mission-critical time-series workloads needing low latency — QuestDB focuses on low-latency time-series workloads and advertises ingestion above eight million rows per second.

    7.1 Free plan Visit site
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    Apache Druid

    Free plan APILinuxMac+2

    Real-time OLAP on massive streaming and batch datasets — Apache Druid combines sub-second OLAP, native Kafka and Kinesis ingestion, and query concurrency from hundreds to 100,000 queries per second.

    7.6 Open source Visit site
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    DuckDB UI

    Free plan ExtensionLinuxMac+3

    Private, local DuckDB querying through a browser UI — DuckDB UI adds a browser interface for local DuckDB, running queries and keeping data on the computer by default.

    7.4 Free plan Visit site
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    MonetDB

    Free plan APILinuxMac+2

    Columnar relational analytics with full ACID transactions — MonetDB is a columnar relational system with full ACID transactions, SQL procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions for analytical workloads.

    7.1 Free plan Visit site
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    ClickHouse Cloud

    by ClickHouse Cloud
    Free trial Open source APILinuxMac+3
    8.0 From $50/mo · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Apache Kylin

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.6 Open source Visit site
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    Apache Pinot

    by Apache Pinot
    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.4 Open source Visit site
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    Firebolt

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    7.3 Free plan Visit site
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    Apache Doris

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted
    7.2 Free plan Visit site
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    IBM Db2

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+2
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $630/mo Visit site
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    Greenplum Database

    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted
    7.1 Pricing on request Visit site
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    SingleStore Helios

    by SingleStore Helios
    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    7.0 Free plan · paid from $0.99 Visit site
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    Microsoft Fabric Notebooks

    Free plan APIWeb
    6.9 Free plan · pricing on request · 60-day trial Visit site
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    Teradata VantageCloud

    by Teradata VantageCloud
    Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1
    6.9 Free plan · pricing on request Visit site
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    MotherDuck

    Free plan APIWeb
    6.8 Free plan · paid from $250/mo · 7-day trial Visit site
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    Actian VectorAI DB

    Free plan LinuxMacWindows
    6.7 Free plan · paid from $417/mo (annual) · 30-day trial Visit site
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    StarRocks

    Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted
    6.7 Free plan Visit site
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    Amazon Redshift

    Free trial APIWeb
    6.2 From $0.54 Visit site
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    Google BigQuery

    Free plan Web
    5.8 Free plan Visit site
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    Yellowbrick Data Warehouse

    Free trial APILinuxMac+3
    5.8 From $0.28 · 30-day trial Visit site
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    Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB

    Paid Web
    4.8 From $119/mo Visit site
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    Databricks Lakehouse Federation

    Paid Web
    4.5 Visit site
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    Huawei Cloud Data Warehouse Service

    Paid LinuxWebWindows
    4.4 Visit site

Its free Community plan is self-hosted, while Personal and Business plans use usage-based warehouse billing and Dedicated requires contacting sales; the pricing note says paid service starts at $1. Databend runs through API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, and web environments. An alternative may fit better for time-series or live operational data, very high event ingestion, local DuckDB work, or a different SQL and deployment model. Weigh workload shape, query language, ingestion path, hosting, and total pricing before moving.

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