Use case

Databases for Ledger & accounting

Financial transactions with strict, auditable correctness. The leading options are TigerBeetle, immudb and BigchainDB.

15 active · ordered by fit for this category, then WhichDB Score

TigerBeetleLedgeropen source

Purpose-built financial transactions database: double-entry accounts and transfers at very high throughput.

19.2
immudbLedger

Immutable, tamper-evident database with cryptographic proofs, offering key-value, SQL and document APIs.

17.2
BigchainDBLedgeropen source

Blockchain-style database combining MongoDB storage with Tendermint BFT consensus; dormant since 2020.

11.1
DatomicRelationalopen source

Immutable Datalog database from Nubank where every fact is timestamped and queries run in the app process.

14.9
Amazon Aurora DSQLRelationalmanaged

Serverless, active-active distributed SQL on AWS with PostgreSQL compatibility and no instances to size.

14.7
XTDBRelationalopen source

Bitemporal SQL database on object storage that keeps every version of every row.

8.3
CovenantSQLRelationalopen source

Byzantine-fault-tolerant, blockchain-backed SQL database built on SQLite; dormant since 2021.

3.8
NuDBKey-Valueopen source

Header-only C++11 append-only key-value store tuned for random reads on SSDs, built for the XRP Ledger.

1.9
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless DatabaseRelationalmanaged

Managed horizontal sharding for Aurora PostgreSQL: one endpoint over a serverless group of shards.

0.8
TDSQL (Tencent)Relationalmanaged

Tencent's financial-grade MySQL-compatible database family: distributed TDSQL and cloud-native TDSQL-C.

0.0
CockroachDBRelational

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

47.1
Azure SQL DatabaseRelationalmanaged

Microsoft's always-current managed SQL Server engine, from free serverless databases to 128 TB Hyperscale.

33.9
OceanBaseRelationalopen source

Alipay-proven distributed SQL with MySQL (and Oracle, in Enterprise) compatibility, HTAP and vector search.

19.4
FlureeDBRDF / Triple Store

Immutable RDF graph database with time travel, git-style branching, SPARQL, JSON-LD and Cypher.

5.3
TransbaseRelational

Compact German SQL RDBMS from Transaction Software, with a Z-curve multidimensional index (Hypercube).

2.5

deprecated, discontinued & research · 1

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