IBM Cloud Databases

Fully managed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with automated backups and high availability

Managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MariaDB, with automated backups, read replicas, high-availability editions and per-second billing

Alibaba's cloud-native distributed relational database family with compute-storage separation, MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle-compatible editions, PolarDB-X for horizontal sharding, and up to 100 TB per cluster — commonly described as Alibaba's answer to Aurora

Fully managed Redis-protocol-compatible in-memory database (formerly ApsaraDB for Redis) with Redis Open-Source and Tair enhanced editions, cluster and read/write-splitting architectures, and persistent-memory options

Fully managed MongoDB-compatible document database with standalone, replica set and sharded cluster architectures, automated backups and point-in-time restore

Fully managed Apache RocketMQ messaging with ordered, transactional, scheduled and delayed messages, serverless and subscription editions

Managed MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server (Web, Standard, Enterprise) with automatic daily backups kept for 7 days, optional on-demand backups and autoscaling storage; billed via monthly plans.

Managed relational database service for Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server and Db2, with automated backups, Multi-AZ deployments and read replicas.

Cloud-native MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, storage that grows automatically to 256 TiB, Aurora Serverless, and Global Database for low-latency cross-Region replication.

Serverless distributed SQL database with multi-region active-active writes, strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and scale-to-zero billing — launched at re:Invent 2024 as AWS's answer to Spanner and CockroachDB for strongly-consistent globally-distributed workloads

Fully managed JSON document database with MongoDB API compatibility (versions 4.0, 5.0 and 8.0; 3.6 in Extended Support), separated compute and storage, and six-way replication across three Availability Zones.

Fast, flexible key-value and document database with single-digit-millisecond latency at any scale, on-demand and provisioned capacity, and global tables

Fully managed in-memory data store and cache compatible with Valkey, Redis OSS and Memcached, with serverless and node-based options, used for caching, session stores and leaderboards at sub-millisecond latency.

Durable in-memory database compatible with Redis OSS and Valkey that delivers microsecond reads, single-digit millisecond writes, and Multi-AZ transaction log durability for both caching and primary database workloads

Managed OpenSearch and Elasticsearch 7.10 compatible search, log analytics, and vector search service with Multi-AZ, cold / UltraWarm storage tiers, OpenSearch Ingestion (Data Prepper), and a serverless option for variable workloads

Fully managed message queuing for decoupling microservices, with standard (at-least-once) and FIFO (exactly-once) queues, dead-letter queues, and long polling

Managed message broker running Apache ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ — retains the wire protocols existing apps already speak (JMS, AMQP 0-9-1, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire) so migrations from on-prem brokers don't require code rewrites

Oracle Exadata Database Service and Autonomous Database running on OCI-managed Exadata infrastructure inside AWS data centres, bought through AWS Marketplace and integrated with AWS networking, IAM and zero-ETL to Redshift. GA July 2025.

Managed relational SQL Server database with built-in intelligence, automatic tuning, Hyperscale tier up to 128 TB, serverless auto-pause, and Always Encrypted for sensitive columns

Globally distributed multi-model database with APIs for NoSQL, MongoDB (RU), Apache Cassandra, Apache Gremlin and Table, turnkey multi-region replication, five tunable consistency levels, vector search and serverless or autoscale throughput.

Fully managed in-memory data store powered by Redis with Basic, Standard, Premium, and Enterprise tiers, geo-replication, Redis Modules, and clustering for horizontal scaling

Managed PostgreSQL (Flexible Server) with zone-redundant high availability, automatic backups, point-in-time restore, read replicas, and elastic clusters for Citus-based horizontal sharding. Single Server retired in March 2025.

Enterprise search-as-a-service (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) with vector, hybrid, and semantic ranking, built-in AI skills for OCR and NLP enrichment, first-class integration with Azure OpenAI for RAG workloads, and 90+ data-source connectors including SharePoint, OneDrive, and Salesforce

Enterprise message broker with queues and pub/sub topics, supporting sessions, transactions, duplicate detection, dead-letter queues, and AMQP 1.0 protocol for interop

Fully managed MongoDB-compatible document database (formerly vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB) built on the open-source DocumentDB engine governed by the Linux Foundation, with vector search, high availability, cross-region replication and compute-plus-storage pricing.

Managed MySQL — flexible-server topology with zone-redundant HA, auto-backup + PITR, read replicas

New-generation Redis service based on Redis Enterprise — active-active geo-replication, tiered memory, scale-out sharding, search + JSON + probabilistic modules. Distinct from the older Azure Cache for Redis

Managed SQL Server instance with near-complete engine compatibility (SQL Agent, cross-database queries, CLR, Service Broker) deployed into your VNet, with General Purpose and Business Critical tiers, for lift-and-shift of SQL Server estates.

Managed relational database services from the Azure portfolio, operated by Bleu from French data centres, with HA, point-in-time restore and private connectivity within Bleu virtual networks. Engine availability is published only in Bleu's gated service list.

Managed MySQL (8.0, 5.7) and PostgreSQL (up to 17) database servers with scheduled automated snapshots stored in Orbit, configurable snapshot retention and a weekly maintenance window for minor version updates.

Managed MySQL and PostgreSQL on OpenStack Trove. Current datastores are MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL 12 (PostGIS available); user-initiated full and incremental backups and read replicas. NZ-onshore data residency.

Managed PostgreSQL (MySQL is scheduled for deprecation) with up to five additional nodes for high availability, automated backups, and sizes from 2 vCPU/4 GB up to 10 vCPU/64 GB

Operator-run managed database service: Cleura provisions, patches, backs up, monitors (24/7) and scales MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Microsoft SQL Server (customer-licensed) on Cleura Public, Compliant or Private Cloud. EU data residency.

Serverless SQLite database with read replicas at the edge — single-region write primary plus global read replication, sub-millisecond reads from Workers, and per-row pricing rather than per-instance hours

Globally distributed message queue for Workers with at-least-once delivery, push (Worker) or HTTP pull consumers, configurable batching, retries and retention up to 14 days, optional dead-letter queues, and no egress charges.

Fully managed PostgreSQL with automated backups, point-in-time recovery, HA replicas, and SecNumCloud-qualified onshore data residency — positioned as the sovereign-FR alternative to RDS-for-Postgres / Azure Database for PostgreSQL / Cloud SQL

Fully managed MariaDB with automated backups, PITR, and HA — the sovereign-FR option for legacy MySQL / MariaDB workloads that need onshore hosting

Serverless managed PostgreSQL integrated with the lakehouse — autoscaling and scale-to-zero, instant branching, point-in-time recovery, Unity Catalog governance and synced tables with Delta. GA on AWS (January 2026) and Azure (March 2026).

Fully managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible), MongoDB, Kafka and OpenSearch databases

Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey, ClickHouse, Grafana and Thanos, from single-node Hobbyist to three-node Premium plans, with daily encrypted backups and point-in-time recovery on supported engines

Managed relational database for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server with automated backups, point-in-time recovery, high availability replicas, and per-second billing — the workhorse RDBMS layer for most GCP applications

Globally distributed relational database with strong consistency across continents — uses TrueTime atomic clocks for external consistency, horizontal scaling without sharding, and full SQL with PostgreSQL dialect

Serverless NoSQL document database with real-time listeners, offline support for mobile and web SDKs, ACID transactions, and automatic multi-region replication

Managed in-memory data stores: Memorystore for Valkey, Memorystore for Redis Cluster and Memorystore for Redis, with HA replicas, automatic failover and encryption. Memorystore for Memcached is deprecated (shutdown 31 January 2029).

Fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database with a cloud-native shared-storage architecture that delivers up to 4x faster transactional workloads and 100x faster analytical queries than standard PostgreSQL via built-in columnar engine and vectorised execution

Global real-time messaging and event ingestion service with at-least-once delivery, push and pull subscriptions, message ordering, and exactly-once delivery option

Managed asynchronous task execution service for decoupling workloads with HTTP targets, App Engine targets, configurable retry logic, and rate limiting

Managed Postgres on Heroku in Classic (Essential/Standard/Premium) and Advanced tiers — backups, rollback, followers, dataclips; Advanced (2026) adds independently scaled compute and storage, follower pools and pgvector. Postgres 18 is the default

Managed key-value store running on Valkey, accessible with any Redis- or Valkey-compatible client — caching, sessions, pub/sub and queue backing for Sidekiq / Celery / BullMQ workers; HA on Premium and above

Managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MariaDB with automatic backup, read replicas, primary-standby HA, cross-AZ deployment, and transparent data encryption

Huawei's enterprise-grade distributed relational database built on the openGauss kernel, with primary/standby and distributed deployments, high availability and strong consistency; MySQL-compatible TaurusDB and NoSQL GeminiDB are now separate products

Managed Redis and Memcached service with master-standby, cluster, and read-replica deployment modes, online scaling, automatic backup to OBS, and VPC-isolated access across Huawei Cloud

Cloud-native MySQL-compatible relational database (formerly GaussDB(for MySQL)) with decoupled compute and storage, up to 15 read replicas and fast failover

Cloud-native multi-model NoSQL database (formerly GaussDB NoSQL) on decoupled storage and compute, compatible with Redis, DynamoDB, Cassandra, InfluxDB, HBase and more

Fully managed MongoDB-compatible document database with cluster, replica set and single-node instances, automated backups and point-in-time recovery

Fully managed Apache Kafka-compatible messaging with high throughput, multi-AZ deployment, Smart Connect data synchronisation and VPC-isolated access

Managed MySQL in Swiss data centres with 1–3 node plans (multi-AZ and 99.9% SLA on Business/Advanced), automated backups, point-in-time recovery and TLS; MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis and OpenSearch are listed as 'available soon'.

Managed PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and In-Memory DB (Valkey, Redis OSS-compatible) clusters in IONOS data centres in Europe and the US, with automated backups, point-in-time recovery and multi-node clusters with automatic failover.

Managed MySQL with instance groups, automatic failover, and backup and restore; PostgreSQL and MemStore (Redis-compatible) are offered as separate Data Store services

Managed PostgreSQL in Kakao Cloud's Data Store family with high availability, backups and monitoring

Managed Redis-compatible in-memory data store with cluster mode and high availability

Announced managed PostgreSQL, MySQL and other engines with automated backups, scaling and high availability on Leaf's Amsterdam infrastructure; listed as coming in 2026.

Managed MySQL with high-availability automatic failover, daily automated backups, performance monitoring and read scaling with up to 10 replicas; PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB and Redis are offered as separate Cloud DB products

Fully managed PostgreSQL with high-availability failover, automated backups, monitoring and read replicas

Fully managed Redis-compatible in-memory cache with high availability and cluster modes

Fully managed MongoDB with replica set and sharded cluster configurations, automated backups and monitoring

Managed PostgreSQL clusters with optional replicas for HA, scheduled and on-demand backups (1-90 day retention) and point-in-time recovery via WAL archiving. Launched January 2026; SecNumCloud PaaS qualification in progress (J0/J1 passed May 2026)

Database as a Service that provisions and manages MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL instances on Nova / Cinder (KeyDB and Valkey arriving in 2027.1), the OpenStack equivalent of RDS / Azure Database / Cloud SQL for self-hosted private and sovereign clouds

Multi-tenant cloud messaging service with REST and WebSocket APIs for queues, notifications and pub/sub between applications

Oracle AI Database (26ai) delivered as a self-managing cloud service that automates tuning, patching, backups and recovery, for transaction processing, data warehouse and JSON workloads on serverless or dedicated Exadata infrastructure.

Oracle Database running on dedicated Exadata hardware in OCI with Smart Scan offloading, storage-server compression, RDMA-based interconnect, and up to 4.5 PB of storage per rack — the canonical destination for demanding Oracle Database workloads

Managed Oracle Database running on VM or bare-metal infrastructure with customer control over OS-level tuning, RAC-based clustering, Data Guard replication, and automatic patching — the middle ground between self-managed EC2-style databases and fully-Autonomous Database

Managed MySQL with the HeatWave in-memory query accelerator that runs OLTP, OLAP (analytics), and in-database machine learning from the same MySQL instance, plus Lakehouse for querying S3-compatible object storage via HeatWave

Managed key-value and document NoSQL database with ACID transactions, flexible schema, global active-active replication, on-demand and provisioned read/write capacity, and single-digit millisecond latency at any scale

Fully managed Valkey and Redis in-memory cache with clustering, replication and automatic failover, sub-millisecond latency, and support for JSON and vector search, used to accelerate application and database read paths.

Serverless message-queuing service for decoupling application components, with persistent messages, at-least-once delivery, visibility timeouts, dead-letter queues and consumer groups, accessed via REST API or STOMP.

Fully managed PostgreSQL service on OCI with optimised shared storage, automatic failover across availability domains, read replicas, backups and patching.

Managed OpenSearch clusters with OpenSearch Dashboards for log analytics, full-text and vector search, with patching, backups and scaling handled by OCI.

Exadata infrastructure installed in the customer's data centre and managed by Oracle, running Oracle AI Database or Autonomous AI Database with management through the OCI control plane.

Oracle Exadata and Autonomous AI Database services deployed inside Microsoft Azure data centres, provisioned through the Azure portal with low-latency access from Azure workloads.

Managed relational databases — MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server — with automated backups, point-in-time recovery, read replicas, and Multi-AZ high availability across the German and Dutch regions

Managed Redis in-memory key-value store (Redis 4.x to 7) for caching and session-store workloads, offered as single-node, primary/standby and multi-AZ cluster instances with automatic failover

Managed document database compatible with MongoDB community versions, deployed as three-node replica sets or sharded clusters, available in EU-DE and EU-NL

Managed messaging based on Apache Kafka, with dedicated Kafka Premium clusters billed hourly

Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB (with a free tier) and Valkey databases with automated backups, scaling and private networking, in 1-AZ or 3-AZ regions. Kafka, OpenSearch, ClickHouse and Grafana dashboards are now sold separately under OVHcloud Analytics.

Fully managed OpenSearch clusters for indexing, full-text search and log/data analytics. Plans run up to multi-AZ with a 99.99% SLA, and OVHcloud handles deployment, patching and backups.

Managed relational databases: Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and MySQL (Enterprise Plus edition) operated by S3NS within its SecNumCloud-qualified Cloud de Confiance. Multi-zone HA, automated backups and Private Service Connect access; SQL Server and cross-region replicas are unavailable.

Managed PostgreSQL and MySQL instances in European datacentres with automated backups and snapshots, stand-alone or High Availability (hot standby in a separate rack) deployments, Multi-AZ read replicas, and hourly billing

Managed Redis® instances on dedicated VMs with 2-node high availability or 3-6 node cluster mode, Private Network support, and deployments in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw

Managed MongoDB Community 7.0/8.0 databases as single nodes or 3-node replica sets, with automatic snapshots, VPC isolation, encryption in transit and Cockpit monitoring; generally available since June 2025

Managed message queues (formerly Messaging and Queuing SQS) with configurable visibility timeout, retention, FIFO deduplication and dead-letter queues, scaling to zero, available in Paris and Amsterdam

Managed PostgreSQL (versions 16–18) on dedicated Snowflake-managed instances in an isolated network, with built-in PgBouncer pooling and compatibility with standard Postgres clients and tools. Not available on Google Cloud.

Row-oriented table type for low-latency transactional reads and writes with enforced primary and foreign keys, queryable alongside standard columnar tables in the same SQL.

Managed PostgreSQL as single-node or three-replica HA instances, with continuous backup and point-in-time restore; flavours from 2 vCPU/4 GB up to 16 vCPU/128 GB per node, available in EU01 (Germany) and EU02 (Austria)

Managed MongoDB document database with replica-set HA, automated backups, and EU data residency in STACKIT's German and Austrian regions

Managed in-memory key-value store with HA replication and persistence options for caching and session-store workloads, hosted in STACKIT's EU regions

Managed OpenSearch (Elasticsearch fork) clusters for full-text search, log analytics, and observability backends — with auto-snapshot, version upgrades, and HA replicas

Managed MariaDB instances with HA option, automated backups + PITR, version upgrades, and EU data residency in STACKIT's German and Austrian regions

Managed RabbitMQ clusters for AMQP-based messaging with queue management, exchange routing, and HA replication, hosted in STACKIT's EU regions

Managed Valkey-based in-memory key-value store with replica sets and automated failover, RDB/AOF persistence, TLS and ACLs; replaces STACKIT Redis, which will be decommissioned on 1 August 2027

Managed Microsoft SQL Server 2022 as single or HA instances (Contained Availability Groups), with backups, point-in-time recovery and import/export via STACKIT Object Storage

Managed MySQL 5.6 / 5.7 / 8.0 relational database service with master-slave HA, read replicas, automatic backups, point-in-time recovery, cross-region DR, and enterprise-grade audit logging

Fully managed Redis OSS-compatible in-memory caching and key-value service with standard and cluster architectures, read replicas and automatic failover

Fully managed PostgreSQL with primary/standby high availability, read replicas, automated backups and point-in-time recovery

Cloud-native MySQL-compatible database with compute-storage separation, shared distributed storage, fast read-only scaling and a serverless option

Fully managed MongoDB-compatible document database with replica set and sharded cluster deployments, automated backups and rollback

Fully managed Apache Kafka-compatible distributed messaging with high throughput, elastic scaling and integration with COS, CLS and SCF

Fully managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch and Valkey services with automated backups, high-availability replicas and point-in-time recovery

Serverless Postgres backed by Neon — branching, autoscaling, scale-to-zero, integrated with the Vercel project model

Serverless Redis-compatible key-value store backed by Upstash — sub-millisecond reads, per-command pricing, edge-runtime compatible

Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey (Redis-compatible) and Apache Kafka with HA option, daily backups, and read replicas