Compare the Top Database Management Systems (DBMS) for Windows as of December 2025

What are Database Management Systems (DBMS) for Windows?

A database management system (DBMS) is software that allows users to store, organize, and manage data efficiently. It provides structured methods for data retrieval, modification, and security while ensuring consistency and integrity. DBMS supports multiple users and applications, enabling controlled access through query languages and interfaces. Different types of DBMS exist, including relational, NoSQL, hierarchical, and object-oriented systems, each designed for specific data needs. These systems are essential for handling large volumes of data in various industries and applications. Compare and read user reviews of the best Database Management Systems (DBMS) for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    RaimaDB

    RaimaDB

    Raima

    RaimaDB is an embedded time series database for IoT and Edge devices that can run in-memory. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS. Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments. RaimaDB is a high-performance, cross-platform embedded database designed for mission-critical applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing markets. It offers a small footprint, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments, and supports both in-memory and persistent storage configurations. RaimaDB provides developers with multiple data modeling options, including traditional relational models and direct relationships through network model sets. It ensures data integrity with ACID-compliant transactions and supports various indexing methods such as B+Tree, Hash Table, R-Tree, and AVL-Tree.
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    Microsoft Access
    Create your own database apps easily in formats that serve your business best. PC only. Access is an easy-to-use tool for creating business applications, from templates or from scratch. With its rich and intuitive design tools, Access can help you create appealing and highly functional applications in a minimal amount of time. Tailor your custom apps to your business and your customers, easily editing as needed to meet evolving needs. Using Visual Basic for Applications, automate business processes and create more useful forms and reports. Integrate data between Access and line-of-business apps using the Access connector library to generate aggregated visuals and insights in the familiar Access interface. Easily store data in SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL to enhance reliability, scalability, security, and long-term manageability.
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    Airtable

    Airtable

    Airtable

    Organize your work your way with Airtable. An all-in-one collaboration software, Airtable combines the power of a relational database with the flexibility and ease of use of a spreadsheet. It works across platforms and devices, and syncs data in real-time. Users can choose from different formats to view the tasks at hand, including grid, calendar, Kanban, gallery, and forms.
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    Starting Price: $12.00/month/user
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    MongoDB

    MongoDB

    MongoDB

    MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. No database is more productive to use. Ship and iterate 3–5x faster with our flexible document data model and a unified query interface for any use case. Whether it’s your first customer or 20 million users around the world, meet your performance SLAs in any environment. Easily ensure high availability, protect data integrity, and meet the security and compliance standards for your mission-critical workloads. An integrated suite of cloud database services that allow you to address a wide variety of use cases, from transactional to analytical, from search to data visualizations. Launch secure mobile apps with native, edge-to-cloud sync and automatic conflict resolution. Run MongoDB anywhere, from your laptop to your data center.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Zoho Creator
    Zoho Creator is an all-in-one low-code application development software that is designed to help businesses digitize their operations without the hassle of traditional development. The platform lets businesses of all sizes 1. Manage their data and workflows, 2. Derive insights from their database, and 3. Link-up seamlessly with their existing software. We believe that each business is unique in its own way and our platform is built to address this uniqueness. More than 13,000 businesses with an excess of 7 million users around the world trust us to be their technology partner and you can also start your custom application journey today.
    Starting Price: $8/user/month/annually
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    Objectivity/DB

    Objectivity/DB

    Objectivity, Inc.

    Objectivity/DB is a massively scalable, high performance, distributed Object Database (ODBMS). It is extremely good at handling complex data, where there are many types of connections between objects and many variants. Objectivity/DB can also serve as a massively scalable, high performance graph database. Its DO query language supports standard data retrieval queries as well as high-performance path-based navigational queries. Objectivity/DB is a distributed database, presenting a Single Logical View of its managed data. Data can be hosted on a single machine or distributed across up to 65,000 machines. Connected items can span machines. Objectivity/DB runs on 32 or 64-bit processors running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. APIs include: C++, C#, Java and Python. All platform and language combinations are interoperable. For example, objects stored by a program using C++ on Linux can be read by a C# program on Windows and a Java program on Mac OS X.
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    Memento Database

    Memento Database

    MementoDB Inc

    Flexibility and diversity of the features make it possible to create an app that perfectly suits your taste. Dozens of types of fields, including text, number, date/time, checkboxes, currency, image, file, calculation, locations, relations and others. Displaying data in the form of a list, a set of cards, a table, on a map, or in a calendar. Performing Data analysis, including aggregation, charting, sorting, grouping, and filtering entries by any fields. Memento allows the synchronizing of data with the cloud and provides various tools for teamwork. Huge functionality for experienced users and simplicity for the ones who just want to organize the everyday life are connected in a single solution that do work for numerous cases. Memento supports offline work. You can transfer data in the offline mode and synchronize it with the cloud later.Memento's catalog of user templates contains thousands of predefined, ready-to-use libraries to use directly or serve as a starting place.
    Starting Price: $4/user/month
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    Ragic Builder
    Ragic is a no-code database builder that allows its user to build their own system according to their own workflow with a spread-sheet like interface that is as quick and as intuitive, capable of building small contact management systems to fully fledged ERP systems.
    Starting Price: $5/month/user
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    WinSQL

    WinSQL

    Synametrics Technologies

    WinSQL is a powerful universal database management tool that is used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies and more than a million programmers and DBAs around the globe. WinSQL is a generic querying tool that connects to any relational database (RDBMS) for which an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver is available, virtually all RDBMS on the market today. Connect to a variety of databases, including: heavy duty vendors Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix to lightweight backends like MS Access, DBase, and Text File. Generate royalty-free executables that can be used by your business users to run queries. These can be either static or dynamic queries that pull fresh data from the back-end. Export or simply open any query results into MS Excel with just a click of your mouse. You can even import an existing Excel spreadsheet to a database table by simply dragging an *.XSL file in the catalog tree.
    Starting Price: $99.00/year/user
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    dbForge Edge
    dbForge Edge is the newest Devart product - the multidatabase software solution covers all database-related jobs, allowing its users to accelerate the tasks' completion, save costs, and improve overall productivity. A set of powerful features applies to all most popular database management systems - MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Notice the most helpful features of dbForge Edge: AI Assistant integration. Database design & development. Convert ER diagrams to actual databases or reverse-engineer databases. SQL coding assistance. Visual query building. Query profiling. Database comparison & synchronization. Deploy changes to the target databases on different platforms. Data management. Data import/export. Data analysis and reporting. Database administration.
    Starting Price: $699.95
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    Liquibase

    Liquibase

    Liquibase

    One area hasn’t benefited from the DevOps movement as much: The database change process. It’s time to bring CI/CD to the database. Application release technology has come a long way in the past several years. It used to take weeks or even months to release new software. Now that organizations have adopted new workflows and processes, the time it takes to complete a release has been reduced to days and even hours. Database schema migrations are an essential task for every software project. There are several different reasons why updates to the database are required. New features require new attributes in existing tables or entirely new tables. Bug fixes may lead to changes in names or data types in the database. Performance issues that require additional indexes in the database. Even in organizations that have adopted DevOps, manual rework is the norm when it comes to database schema and stored procedure changes.
    Starting Price: $5000 per year
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    HeidiSQL

    HeidiSQL

    HeidiSQL

    HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. "Heidi" lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Invented in 2002 by Ansgar, HeidiSQL belongs to the most popular tools for MariaDB and MySQL worldwide. Free for everyone, OpenSource. Connect to multiple servers in one window. Supported database systems: MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Connect to servers via commandline. Connect via SSH tunnel, or pass SSL settings. Create and edit tables, views, stored routines, triggers and scheduled events. Generate nice SQL-exports, compress these afterwards, or put them on the clipboard. Export from one server/database directly to another server/database. Manage user-privileges, import text-files, export table rows as CSV, HTML, XML, SQL, LaTeX, Wiki Markup and PHP Array. Browse and edit table-data using a comfortable grid.
    Starting Price: $0
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    dbForge Studio for MySQL
    dbForge Studio for MySQL is a multi-featured IDE that covers nearly every aspect of MySQL and MariaDB development, management, administration, data analysis, and reporting. The rich feature set of the Studio is augmented by a clean and intuitive GUI and CLI-powered automation capabilities. Key features: AI Assistant Integration Generate, fix, and optimize SQL queries in a matter of moments with dbForge AI Assistant. Database Development The tool offers quite a few features to streamline routine SQL coding and ensure the high quality of the output. Database Design Visual object editors and handy functionality that help you visualize databases on entity-relationship diagrams. Database Management A set of features for effective and versatile database management. Data Analysis & Reporting Facilitates data aggregation, analysis, and reporting. Database Administration There are also integrated features to ensure quick and smooth database administration.
    Starting Price: $9.95
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    dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL
    dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL is a GUI tool for database development and management. The IDE for PostgreSQL allows users to create, develop, and execute queries, edit and adjust the code to your requirements in a convenient and user-friendly interface. The tool provides a data editing tool to customize your queries and property window so that users can view all the required information of PostgreSQL database objects they are interested in. Key features: * AI Assistant Integration. * SQL Development. Save your time and improve code quality when creating and editing queries. * Explorer. Navigate through the object tree and find any PostgreSQL object you want. * Data Editor. Users can manage the settings of tables. * Data Export and Data Import. Supports 10+ widely used data formats, a number of advanced options, and templates for recurring scenarios. * Query Profiler. * Data and Schema Compare. * Data Generator. * Pivot Table.
    Starting Price: $89.95
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    dbForge Studio for Oracle
    dbForge Studio for Oracle is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) which helps Oracle SQL developers to increase PL/SQL coding speed, provides versatile data editing tools for managing in-database and external data. This Oracle IDE allows synchronizing data between different Oracle servers and automating schema change management process during development. dbForge Oracle GUI features powerful functionality wrapped into a smooth management Oracle GUI consistent with Microsoft Visual Studio. Key features: * AI Assistant Integration * PL/SQL Coding Assistant * Database Project * Oracle Database Management * Data Generator * Documenter * Object Manager * Oracle PL/SQL Debugger * Query Builder * Query Profiler * Schema Import/Export * Database Administration * Database Designer * Import/Export Data * Report and Analysis * Find Object You can always find the latest version of the product on the official Devart website.
    Starting Price: $149.95
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    CUBRID

    CUBRID

    CUBRID

    CUBRID is a relational DBMS optimized for online transaction processing (OLTP) that complies with ANSI SQL standards and provides MVCC support, High-Availability (HA) capabilities, and GUI-based tools for DB management/migration. It also provides Oracle/MySQL compatibility and supports a variety of interfaces, including JDBC. CUBRID provides ease of installation and native GUI-based administration tools for developers' convenience. Multi-threaded, multi-server architecture, native broker middleware, cost-based optimizer, and intensive caching techniques for your OLTP services. Very accurate predictable automatic fail-over built-in technology, based on the CUBRID Heartbeat native engine core. Multi-volume support, automatic volume expansion, and unlimited number and size of databases/ tables/indexes.
    Starting Price: $0.01/one-time/user
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    InterSystems Caché
    InterSystems Caché® is a high-performance database that powers transaction processing applications around the world. It is used for everything from mapping a billion stars in the Milky Way, to processing a billion equity trades in a day, to managing smart energy grids. Caché is a multi-model (object, relational, key-value) DBMS and application server developed by InterSystems. InterSystems Caché provides several APIs to operate with same data simultaneously: key-value, relational, object, document, multi-dimensional. Data can be managed via SQL, Java, node.js, .NET, C++, Python. Caché also provides an application server which hosts web apps (CSP), REST, SOAP, web sockets and other types of TCP access for Caché data.
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    AutosyncDB

    AutosyncDB

    DreamTeam

    AutosyncDB is a comprehensive solution for comparing and synchronizing SQL Server database schemas along with predefined data. The idea is to automate the database update for each new version of an application using its new database as a source of sample schema and predefined application data. In a few clicks AutosyncDB allows you to reveal the differences between database objects, analyze them, build your own customized synchronization script and deploy it. In addition, using the integration support you can run such a task for multiple databases on your servers, or export it as a package to provide client-side updates.
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    DittoBitto

    DittoBitto

    DittoBitto

    DittoBitto is a clever, easy to use, yet powerful multi-user relational database management system. DittoBitto is based on the *Microsoft’s Access database format but doesn’t require all the virtual basic coding. It’s small in size yet very powerful. Great for creating any of your database needs and you can network it too. DittoBitto has over 13,000 downloads off of download.com. There are advantages to keeping your database in-house and off the cloud. They claim your valuable data is safe stored on some server in some warehouse. But clever people are finding clever ways to hack these sites. Plus if you loose internet connection, you loose access to your data. If your online database provider goes out of business, who knows what happens to your data and you have to start over. An advanced unlimited number of Forms feature. Forms are the working screens for the input and retrieval of data.
    Starting Price: $30 one-time payment
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    QuasarDB

    QuasarDB

    QuasarDB

    Quasar's brain is QuasarDB, a high-performance, distributed, column-oriented timeseries database management system designed from the ground up to deliver real-time on petascale use cases. Up to 20X less disk usage. Quasardb ingestion and compression capabilities are unmatched. Up to 10,000X faster feature extraction. QuasarDB can extract features in real-time from the raw data, thanks to the combination of a built-in map/reduce query engine, an aggregation engine that leverages SIMD from modern CPUs, and stochastic indexes that use virtually no disk space. The most cost-effective timeseries solution, thanks to its ultra-efficient resource usage, the capability to leverage object storage (S3), unique compression technology, and fair pricing model. Quasar runs everywhere, from 32-bit ARM devices to high-end Intel servers, from Edge Computing to the cloud or on-premises.
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