Databases for Geospatial

The standard spatial extension for PostgreSQL: geometry, geography, rasters and topology in SQL.

In-memory geospatial database and geofencing server that speaks the Redis protocol and HTTP.

Frank Denis's in-memory, persistent store for geographic points and key/value records with an HTTP/JSON API.

The extensible, standards-first open-source relational database.

Community-led MySQL fork with extra storage engines, built-in Galera and a faster feature cadence.

Hosted search-as-a-service with fast typo-tolerant search, merchandising and AI ranking.

Postgres-wire distributed SQL built to survive node, zone and region failures with serializable transactions.

Open-source JSON database that pushes live query results to apps through changefeeds.

GPU-native columnar SQL database with visual analytics, fully open-sourced by NVIDIA in 2026.

EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL with deep Oracle compatibility: PL/SQL packages, DBMS_* and TDE.

Embeddable multidimensional array storage engine for dense and sparse data on object storage.

Fully open-source multi-master distributed PostgreSQL built on the Spock logical replication extension.

GPU- and vector-accelerated database for real-time spatial, time-series and vector analytics.

Apache-licensed PostgreSQL distribution with an Oracle-compatible mode, PL/iSQL and Oracle packages.

Array database for massive multidimensional rasters, with SQL-style queries and OGC WCPS services.

Embeddable in-memory key/value store for Go with ACID transactions, custom and spatial indexes, and TTLs.

AWS's original managed search service, closed to new customers since July 2024.

Apache parallel database for semi-structured JSON data with SQL++, LSM storage and spatial/text indexes.

Distributed shared-nothing SQL database built to serve the Rubin Observatory's petascale sky catalogs.

Crunchy Data's developer-friendly managed Postgres across AWS, GCP and Azure, now owned by Snowflake.

Ekky Software's embedded C++ object database with B+tree, spatial, full-text and pattern indexes.

Russian commercial PostgreSQL distribution with multimaster, 64-bit XIDs and compressed storage.

The web's default open-source SQL database, now on calendar versioning with 9.7 as the LTS line.

The default document database: flexible BSON documents, rich queries and built-in sharding.

Lucene-based distributed search and analytics engine for text, vectors, logs and metrics.

Microsoft's flagship RDBMS: T-SQL, columnstore, Always On, and now native vectors and JSON.

The enterprise heavyweight: RAC, Data Guard and a converged engine for SQL, JSON, graph and vectors.

Apache-licensed, foundation-governed fork of Elasticsearch for search, vectors and observability.

Open-source Postgres backend platform: database, auth, storage, realtime and edge functions in one project.

Serverless document database with realtime listeners, offline SDKs and a new Enterprise edition.

The original Lucene search server: battle-tested, Apache-governed, now with GPU-accelerated vectors.

SAP's in-memory columnar HTAP database, the mandatory engine under S/4HANA.

The Java search library at the heart of Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and Solr, now with HNSW vectors.

Microsoft's managed search service for full-text, vector, hybrid and agentic retrieval on Azure.

IBM's managed, CouchDB-compatible JSON database with built-in search and geospatial queries.

In-memory, typo-tolerant search engine in C++ with vector, hybrid and conversational search.

Distributed SQL database built on Lucene for real-time analytics over machine, IoT and JSON data.

AWS's managed service for six relational engines: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server and Db2.

AWS's MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible engine on a shared, six-way replicated storage layer.

Fast SQL-first search database, forked from Sphinx, with columnar storage and vector KNN.

Fast open-source SPARQL engine that serves all of Wikidata or OpenStreetMap from one machine.

Lisp-built RDF and document knowledge graph with vector store, reasoning and LLM agents.

Pure-Go full-text, geo and vector indexing library from Couchbase.

Microsoft's managed community PostgreSQL, with zone-redundant HA, DiskANN vectors and Citus elastic clusters.

Hyperscale data warehouse on NVMe compute-adjacent storage, rebranded as the OcientAIQ platform.

Distributed vector database from DataJaguar that also handles time series and geospatial data.

Alibaba Cloud's shared-storage relational service in MySQL-, PostgreSQL- and Oracle-compatible editions.