Litestream Alternatives for macOS

PostgreSQL, or Postgres for short is a widely popular, free and open-source relational database management system. PostgreSQL is available for all major operating systems including macOS, Linux, Windows, BSD and Solaris. The project has been in active development for over 30 years now, and powers many of the applications you use on a daily basis.

SQLite is a free and open-source relational database management system that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine. Rather than being a typical client–server database engine, SQLite is self-contained and can be embedded into applications. Making it perfect for development frameworks that want to provide a default database without setup, or applications that needs an embedded database. SQLite is built into all mobile operating systems and most computers and comes bundled with a countless applications. SQLite is also ACID-compliant and implements most of the SQL standard, generally following PostgreSQL syntax.

The worlds most popular free open-source relational database, MySQL is used by 150,000 + companies across the globe. The relational database management system is released and distributed under the GPL license and openly developed by the community. MySQL uses SQL as its query language and is fully integrated and ACID compliant.

Cockroach is a distributed key/value datastore that allow you to build, scale and manage modern, data-intensive applications. The database delivers distributed SQL by combining the familiarity of relational data with limitless, elastic cloud scale and bulletproof resilience. Correct data is a must for mission-critical and even the most common applications. CockroachDB provides guaranteed ACID compliant transactions, allowing you to fully trust your data.

HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC driver, conforming to ANSI SQL:2016. It's the best for Java developers for development, testing and deployment of database applications. HSQLDB provides a small, fast, multithreaded engine and server with memory and disk tables, LOBs, transaction isolation, multiversion concurrency and ACID.

VoltDB is a blazingly fast NewSQL database management system that is specifically designed to run on modern scale-out architectures - fast, inexpensive servers connected via high-speed data networks. VoltDB is a popular choice for companies with high data throughput requirements, like in the telecommunications industry. 5G has changed the game for telcos, and new rules call for a new way of managing data. VoltDB is built for today’s massive data volume and complexity, allowing businesses to survive and thrive in the age of 5G, IoT, and whatever comes next.

CrateDB is the leading, distributed SQL database for relational and time‑series data. CrateDB provides a distributed SQL DBMS built atop NoSQL storage & indexing delivers the best of SQL & NoSQL in one DB. It's designed for simple scalability with a masterless architecture with auto-sharding & replication. It also provides solutions for dynamic schema where the schema evolves automatically as new columns are inserted, while handling any tabular or non-tabular data to support a wide range of use cases. CrateDB is the perfect choice for your machine data.