Compare the Top Key-Value Databases in Australia as of April 2026

What are Key-Value Databases in Australia?

Key-value databases are a type of NoSQL database that store data as pairs, where each unique key is associated with a value. This structure is simple and highly flexible, making key-value databases ideal for scenarios requiring fast access to data, such as caching, session management, and real-time applications. In these databases, the key acts as a unique identifier for retrieving or storing the value, which can be any type of data—strings, numbers, objects, or even binary data. Key-value stores are known for their scalability, performance, and ability to handle high volumes of read and write operations with low latency. These databases are particularly useful for applications that require quick lookups or high availability, such as online retail platforms, social networks, and recommendation systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best Key-Value Databases in Australia currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    InterSystems IRIS

    InterSystems IRIS

    InterSystems

    InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform. It is the next generation of our proven data management software.It includes the capabilities of InterSystems Cache and Ensemble, plus a wealth of exciting new capabilities to make it easy to build and deploy cloud based, analytics-intensive enterprise applications with even greater performance and scalability. InterSystems IRIS provides a set of APIs to operate with transactional persistent data simultaneously: key-value, relational, object, document, multidimensional. Data can be managed by SQL, Java, node.js, .NET, C++, Python, and native server-side ObjectScript language. InterSystems IRIS includes
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    Redis

    Redis

    Redis Labs

    Redis Labs: home of Redis. Redis Enterprise is the best version of Redis. Go beyond cache; try Redis Enterprise free in the cloud using NoSQL & data caching with the world’s fastest in-memory database. Run Redis at scale, enterprise grade resiliency, massive scalability, ease of management, and operational simplicity. DevOps love Redis in the Cloud. Developers can access enhanced data structures, a variety of modules, and rapid innovation with faster time to market. CIOs love the confidence of working with 99.999% uptime best in class security and expert support from the creators of Redis. Implement relational databases, active-active, geo-distribution, built in conflict distribution for simple and complex data types, & reads/writes in multiple geo regions to the same data set. Redis Enterprise offers flexible deployment options, cloud on-prem, & hybrid. Redis Labs: home of Redis. Redis JSON, Redis Java, Python Redis, Redis on Kubernetes & Redis gui best practices.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Amazon DynamoDB
    Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It's a fully managed, multi-region, Multimaster, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. DynamoDB can handle more than 10 trillion requests per day and can support peaks of more than 20 million requests per second. Many of the world's fastest-growing businesses such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin as well as enterprises such as Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads. Focus on driving innovation with no operational overhead. Build out your game platform with player data, session history, and leaderboards for millions of concurrent users. Use design patterns for deploying shopping carts, workflow engines, inventory tracking, and customer profiles. DynamoDB supports high-traffic, extreme-scaled events.
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    Riak KV
    At Riak, we are distributed systems experts and we work with Application teams to overcome these distributed system challenges. Riak’s Riak® is a distributed NoSQL database that delivers unmatched Resiliency beyond typical “high availability” offerings. Innovative technology to ensure data accuracy and never lose a write. Massive scale on commodity hardware. Common code foundation with true multi-model support. Riak® provides all this, while still focused on ease of operations. Chose Riak® KV flexible key-value data model for web scale profile and session management, real-time big data, catalog, content management, customer 360, digital messaging, and more use cases. Chose Riak® TS for IoT and time series use cases. When seconds of latency can cost thousands of dollars and an outage millions, the call for scalable, highly available databases that are easy to operationalize is resoundingly clear. Riak performs as promised and keeps the lights on.
    Starting Price: $0
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    eXtremeDB

    eXtremeDB

    McObject

    How is platform independent eXtremeDB different? - Hybrid data storage. Unlike other IMDS, eXtremeDB can be all-in-memory, all-persistent, or have a mix of in-memory tables and persistent tables - Active Replication Fabric™ is unique to eXtremeDB, offering bidirectional replication, multi-tier replication (e.g. edge-to-gateway-to-gateway-to-cloud), compression to maximize limited bandwidth networks and more - Row & Columnar Flexibility for Time Series Data supports database designs that combine row-based and column-based layouts, in order to best leverage the CPU cache speed - Embedded and Client/Server. Fast, flexible eXtremeDB is data management wherever you need it, and can be deployed as an embedded database system, and/or as a client/server database system -A hard real-time deterministic option in eXtremeDB/rt Designed for use in resource-constrained, mission-critical embedded systems. Found in everything from routers to satellites to trains to stock markets worldwide
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    LeanXcale

    LeanXcale

    LeanXcale

    LeanXcale is a fast and scalable database that combines the characteristics of SQL and NoSQL. It is built to ingest massive batch and real-time data pipelines and make it available through SQL or GIS for any use, such as operational applications, analytics, dashboarding, or machine learning processing. No matter what stack you use, LeanXcale provides you both SQL and NoSQL interfaces. KiVi storage engine is a relational key-value data store. Users can access the data not only through the standard SQL API but also through a direct ACID key-value interface. This key-value interface allows users to perform data ingestion at very high rates and very efficiently by avoiding SQL processing overhead. Highly-scalable, efficient and distributed storage engine distributed data along the cluster to improve the performance and increase the reliability.
    Starting Price: $0.127 per GB per month
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    Alibaba Cloud Tablestore
    Tablestore enables seamless expansion of data size and access concurrency through data sharding and server load balancer technologies, providing storage of and real-time access to massive structured data. Three copies of data with high consistency, full host, service high availability and data high reliability. Provides full/incremental data tunnels, seamlessly interconnecting with various products for big data analysis and real-time stream computing. Distributed architecture, single table auto scaling, support of 10-PB-level data and 10-million-level access concurrency. Multi-dimensional and multi-level security protection and resource access management to ensure data security. The low latency, high concurrency, elastic resources and Pay-As-You-Go billing method of this service enables your risk control system to always operate in optimal conditions, allowing you to strictly control transaction risks.
    Starting Price: $0.00010 per GB
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    ArcadeDB

    ArcadeDB

    ArcadeDB

    ArcadeDB is an open-source, next-generation multi-model database. Forget Polyglot Persistence — store graphs, documents, key-value pairs, search engine indexes, vectors, and time-series data all in one database with native support for every model. No translation layers, no performance penalties. Process over 10 million records per second. Traversal speed stays constant whether your database has hundreds or billions of records. Query in the language you prefer: SQL, Cypher, Gremlin, GraphQL, MongoDB API, or Java. Deploy ArcadeDB embedded in your JVM application, on a standalone server, or distributed across multiple nodes with Raft Consensus for high availability. Fully ACID-compliant. Super lightweight. Apache 2.0 licensed — free for production and commercial use.
    Starting Price: Free
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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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    GridGain

    GridGain

    GridGain Systems

    The enterprise-grade platform built on Apache Ignite that provides in-memory speed and massive scalability for data-intensive applications and real-time data access across datastores and applications. Upgrade from Ignite to GridGain with no code changes and deploy your clusters securely at global scale with zero downtime. Perform rolling upgrades of your production clusters with no impact on application availability. Replicate across globally distributed data centers to load balance workloads and prevent downtime from regional outages. Secure your data at rest and in motion, and ensure compliance with security and privacy standards. Easily integrate with your organization's authentication and authorization system. Enable full data and user activity auditing. Create automated schedules for full and incremental backups. Restore your cluster to the last stable state with snapshots and point-in-time recovery.
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    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB

    ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency. It enables teams to harness the ever-increasing computing power of modern infrastructures – eliminating barriers to scale as data grows. Unlike any other database, ScyllaDB is a distributed NoSQL database fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB, yet is built with deep architectural advancements that enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs. Over 400 game-changing companies like Disney+ Hotstar, Expedia, FireEye, Discord, Zillow, Starbucks, Comcast, and Samsung use ScyllaDB for their toughest database challenges. ScyllaDB is available as free open source software, a fully-supported enterprise product, and a fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) on multiple cloud providers.
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    Azure Cosmos DB
    Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database service for modern app development with guaranteed single-digit millisecond response times and 99.999-percent availability backed by SLAs, automatic and instant scalability, and open source APIs for MongoDB and Cassandra. Enjoy fast writes and reads anywhere in the world with turnkey multi-master global distribution. Reduce time to insight by running near-real time analytics and AI on the operational data within your Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL database. Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB seamlessly integrates with Azure Synapse Analytics without data movement or diminishing the performance of your operational data store.
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    Oracle Berkeley DB
    Berkeley DB is a family of embedded key-value database libraries providing scalable high-performance data management services to applications. The Berkeley DB products use simple function-call APIs for data access and management. Berkeley DB enables the development of custom data management solutions, without the overhead traditionally associated with such custom projects. Berkeley DB provides a collection of well-proven building-block technologies that can be configured to address any application need from the hand-held device to the data center, from a local storage solution to a world-wide distributed one, from kilobytes to petabytes.
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    Macrometa

    Macrometa

    Macrometa

    We deliver a geo-distributed real-time database, stream processing and compute runtime for event-driven applications across up to 175 worldwide edge data centers. App & API builders love our platform because we solve the hardest problems of sharing mutable state across 100s of global locations, with strong consistency & low latency. Macrometa enables you to surgically extend your existing infrastructure to bring part of or your entire application closer to your end users. This allows you to improve performance, user experience, and comply with global data governance laws. Macrometa is a serverless, streaming NoSQL database, with integrated pub/sub and stream data processing and compute engine. Create stateful data infrastructure, stateful functions & containers for long running workloads, and process data streams in real time. You do the code, we do all the ops and orchestration.
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    Azure Cache for Redis
    As traffic and demands on your app increase, scale performance simply and cost-effectively. Add a quick caching layer to the application architecture to handle thousands of simultaneous users with near-instant speed—all with the benefits of a fully managed service. Superior throughput and performance to handle millions of requests per second with sub-millisecond latency. Fully managed service with automatic patching, updates, scaling, and provisioning so you can focus on development. RedisBloom, RediSearch, and RedisTimeSeries module integration, supporting data analysis, search, and streaming. Powerful capabilities including clustering, built-in replication, Redis on Flash, and availability of up to 99.99 percent. Complement database services like Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos DB by enabling your data tier to scale throughput at a lower cost than through expanded database instances.
    Starting Price: $1.11 per month
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    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    GigaSpaces

    eRAG (enterprise RAG) combines the power of real-time operational data with GPT’s fantastic user experience: Chat spontaneously and get immediate answers grounded in a unique understanding of your operational data. With its sophisticated semantic reasoning capabilities, eRAG ensures you get accurate, consistent answers. It answers complex, cross-system questions instantly, supports decisions with suggestions, challenges, and next steps. eRAG connects your business data with external events, so that you can weigh the effect of new tax legislation or weather disruptions on your operations. eRAG combines all your operational data sources so you can get a full, unified picture of your business, offering measurable revenue and efficiency outcomes. Through a self-serve UI, IT teams can connect SQL-based databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAP and other systems in just a few clicks. And you can get up and running in 2–3 weeks - no data prep needed.
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    FairCom DB

    FairCom DB

    FairCom Corporation

    FairCom DB is ideal for large-scale, mission-critical, core-business applications that require performance, reliability and scalability that cannot be achieved by other databases. FairCom DB delivers predictable high-velocity transactions and massively parallel big data analytics. It empowers developers with NoSQL APIs for processing binary data at machine speed and ANSI SQL for easy queries and analytics over the same binary data. Among the companies that take advantage of the flexibility of FairCom DB is Verizon, who recently chose FairCom DB as an in-memory database for its Verizon Intelligent Network Control Platform Transaction Server Migration. FairCom DB is an advanced database engine that gives you a Continuum of Control to achieve unprecedented performance with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). You do not conform to FairCom DB…FairCom DB conforms to you. With FairCom DB, you are not forced to conform your needs to meet the limitations of the database.
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    Symas LMDB

    Symas LMDB

    Symas Corporation

    Symas LMDB is an extraordinarily fast, memory-efficient database we developed for the OpenLDAP Project. With memory-mapped files, it has the read performance of a pure in-memory database while retaining the persistence of standard disk-based databases. Bottom line, with only 32KB of object code, LMDB may seem tiny. But it’s the right 32KB. Compact and efficient are two sides of a coin; that’s part of what makes LMDB so powerful. Symas offers fixed-price commercial support to those using LMDB in your applications. Development occurs in the OpenLDAP Project‘s git repo in the mdb.master branch. Symas LMDB has been written about, talked about, and utilized in a variety of impressive products and publications.
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    Google Cloud Memorystore
    Reduce latency with scalable, secure, and highly available in-memory service for Redis and Memcached. Memorystore automates complex tasks for open source Redis and Memcached like enabling high availability, failover, patching, and monitoring so you can spend more time coding. Start with the lowest tier and smallest size and then grow your instance with minimal impact. Memorystore for Memcached can support clusters as large as 5 TB supporting millions of QPS at very low latency. Memorystore for Redis instances are replicated across two zones and provide a 99.9% availability SLA. Instances are monitored constantly and with automatic failover—applications experience minimal disruption. Choose from the two most popular open source caching engines to build your applications. Memorystore supports both Redis and Memcached and is fully protocol compatible. Choose the right engine that fits your cost and availability requirements.
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    AsparaDB

    AsparaDB

    Alibaba

    ApsaraDB for Redis is an automated and scalable tool for developers to manage data storage shared across multiple processes, applications or servers. As a Redis protocol compatible tool, ApsaraDB for Redis offers exceptional read-write capabilities and ensures data persistence by using memory and hard disk storage. ApsaraDB for Redis provides data read-write capabilities at high speed by retrieving data from in-memory caches and ensures data persistence by using both memory and hard disk storage mode. ApsaraDB for Redis supports advanced data structures such as leaderboard, counting, session, and tracking, which are not readily achievable through ordinary databases. ApsaraDB for Redis also has an enhanced edition called "Tair" . Tair has officially handled the data caching scenarios of Alibaba Group since 2009 and has proven its outstanding performance in scenarios such as Double 11 Shopping Festival.
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    VMware Tanzu GemFire
    VMware Tanzu GemFire is a distributed, in-memory, key-value store that performs read and write operations at blazingly fast speeds. It offers highly available parallel message queues, continuous availability, and an event-driven architecture you can scale dynamically, with no downtime. As your data size requirements increase to support high-performance, real-time apps, Tanzu GemFire can scale linearly with ease. Traditional databases are often too brittle or unreliable for use with microservices. That’s why every modern distributed architecture needs a cache! With Tanzu GemFire, applications get low-latency responses to data access requests, and always return fresh data. Your applications can subscribe to real-time events to react to changes immediately. Tanzu GemFire’s continuous queries notify your application when new data is available, which reduces the overhead on your SQL database.
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    Cloudera

    Cloudera

    Cloudera

    Manage and secure the data lifecycle from the Edge to AI in any cloud or data center. Operates across all major public clouds and the private cloud with a public cloud experience everywhere. Integrates data management and analytic experiences across the data lifecycle for data anywhere. Delivers security, compliance, migration, and metadata management across all environments. Open source, open integrations, extensible, & open to multiple data stores and compute architectures. Deliver easier, faster, and safer self-service analytics experiences. Provide self-service access to integrated, multi-function analytics on centrally managed and secured business data while deploying a consistent experience anywhere—on premises or in hybrid and multi-cloud. Enjoy consistent data security, governance, lineage, and control, while deploying the powerful, easy-to-use cloud analytics experiences business users require and eliminating their need for shadow IT solutions.
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