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
Purpose-built financial transactions database: double-entry accounts and transfers at very high throughput.
Immutable, tamper-evident database with cryptographic proofs, offering key-value, SQL and document APIs.
Blockchain-style database combining MongoDB storage with Tendermint BFT consensus; dormant since 2020.
Immutable Datalog database from Nubank where every fact is timestamped and queries run in the app process.
Serverless, active-active distributed SQL on AWS with PostgreSQL compatibility and no instances to size.
Bitemporal SQL database on object storage that keeps every version of every row.
Byzantine-fault-tolerant, blockchain-backed SQL database built on SQLite; dormant since 2021.
Header-only C++11 append-only key-value store tuned for random reads on SSDs, built for the XRP Ledger.
Managed horizontal sharding for Aurora PostgreSQL: one endpoint over a serverless group of shards.
Tencent's financial-grade MySQL-compatible database family: distributed TDSQL and cloud-native TDSQL-C.
Postgres-wire distributed SQL built to survive node, zone and region failures with serializable transactions.
Microsoft's always-current managed SQL Server engine, from free serverless databases to 128 TB Hyperscale.
Alipay-proven distributed SQL with MySQL (and Oracle, in Enterprise) compatibility, HTAP and vector search.
Immutable RDF graph database with time travel, git-style branching, SPARQL, JSON-LD and Cypher.
Compact German SQL RDBMS from Transaction Software, with a Z-curve multidimensional index (Hypercube).
deprecated, discontinued & research · 1
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