A verified directory of databases built for IoT workloads: edge deployment, sensor time-series ingestion, and low-footprint embedded storage.
InfluxDB handles the massive volumes of time-stamped data produced by IoT sensors, applications and infrastructure.
www.influxdata.com/ 02CrateDB is the leading, distributed SQL database for relational and time-series IoT data.
cratedb.com/ 03MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the IoT and cloud era.
www.mongodb.com/ 04RethinkDB is the open-source, scalable database that makes building realtime apps dramatically easier.
rethinkdb.com/ Low Recent Activity 05SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine.
www.sqlite.org/index.html 06The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance.
cassandra.apache.org/ 07BadgerDB is an embeddable, persistent and fast key-value (KV) database. GitHub lists v4.9.6 as the latest release, from July 2026.
github.com/dgraph-io/badger 08RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage.
rocksdb.org/ 09Life on the edge – high performance data persistence and synchronization.
objectbox.io/ 10YottaDB scales from all the way down to the small footprint needed to embed a database engine in IoT devices.
yottadb.com/ 11Redis is an open source, in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker — well suited to demanding IoT edge workloads.
redis.io/ Rebranded: Redis 12TimescaleDB is the leading open-source relational database for time-series data, now developed by Tiger Data.
www.tigerdata.com/ Rebranded: Tiger Data 13OpenTSDB stores and serves massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
opentsdb.net/ Low Recent Activity 14Toshiba GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory NoSQL time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data.
www.griddb.net/en/ 15IBM Informix is a scalable, embeddable database with self-managing capabilities, optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things (IoT) data.
www.ibm.com/products/informix 16Apache IoTDB (Database for Internet of Things) is an IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud.
iotdb.apache.org/ 17eXtremeDB is a hybrid persistent and in-memory database management system for edge and cloud.
www.mcobject.com/ 18FairCom is built for IoT to integrate, collect, aggregate & synchronize mission-critical data on the edge.
www.faircom.com/ 19Actian Zen data management is a zero-administration, embeddable, nano-footprint edge data management system.
www.actian.com/databases/zen/ 20An in-process analytical database that runs inside an application, useful for analysing data on edge devices.
duckdb.org/ 21An embedded NoSQL database for mobile and edge apps that syncs with Couchbase Server.
www.couchbase.com/products/lite/ 22A SQLite-compatible database platform built on libSQL, with embedded and edge deployment options.
turso.tech/ 23Cloudflare's serverless SQL database, built on SQLite, for applications running at the edge.
developers.cloudflare.com/d1/Databases for edge, time-series and sensor workloads, including InfluxDB, CrateDB, MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, Apache IoTDB, Toshiba GridDB and Redis.
Sensors and devices produce large volumes of timestamped data at high write rates, so time-series and edge-friendly databases are designed to ingest it efficiently and query it by time.
Yes. See Real-Time Embedded Database Management Systems for databases that run inside devices, such as SQLite, RaimaDB and eXtremeDB.
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