Appendix K: The Other RDBMS
Appendix K: The Other RDBMS
This book concentrates on three big vendors — Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft — but of course, they are not the only providers of relational database software. We intentionally tried to steer away from the "holy wars" of the RDBMS vendors, and we hope we've succeeded.
There are virtually dozens of lesser-known RDBMS packages out there, and their merits are not always reflected by their market share. Most of them compare very favorably with the "big three" in terms of costs (some of these are distributed free of charge), and even performance. Some of the most popular are listed in Table K-1; the list is by no means complete.
|
RDBMS |
SQL |
Operating System |
Vendor Info |
|---|---|---|---|
|
ADABAS |
92 |
Unix, Linux, mainframe |
Software AG www.software agusa.com |
|
Cloudscape DBMS |
92/99 |
Any platform for which JVM is implemented |
IBM www.cloudscape.com |
|
Daffodil DB Java |
99 |
Any platform for which JVM is implemented |
Daffodil Software www.daffodil woods.com |
|
Empress |
92 |
Sun Solaris, HP_UX, IBM AIX, True64 UNIX, IRIX, LINUX, FreeBSD, UNICOS, MS Windows NT/2000/XP LynxOS, QNX, RTU, Bluecat, RTLinux |
Empress Software Inc. www.empress.com |
|
FirstBase v9.3.2 |
92 |
Unix, Linux |
FirstBase Software www.firstbase.com Open Source Database, GNU General Public License |
|
FoxPro/FoxBase |
92 |
Microsoft Windows 9x/ NT/2000/XP |
Microsoft Corporation www.microsoft.com |
|
INGRES II |
92 |
Windows NT/2000, Unix, Open VMS, Linux |
Computer Associates www.cai.com |
|
Informix |
92 |
IBM AIX, SGI IRIX; Linux; Reliant UNIX; Sun Solaris; Compaq Tru64; Windows NT/2000/ XP; UNIXWare, HP-UX |
IBM www.informix.com |
|
InterBase |
92 |
Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Linux |
Borland Software Corporation www.borland.com |
|
LEAP RDBMS v1.2.6. |
92 |
Unix, Linux |
http://leapsourceforge.netOpen Source Database, GNU General Public License |
|
Linter RDBMS SQL/RelX Enterprise |
92/99 |
Linux (Red Hat, Caldera, SuSe, Mandrake) FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi Sun Solaris (ix86, Sparc) SGI IRIX, IBM AIX(Power PC) Digital UNIX, OpenVMS HP-UX, Novell Netware SINIX, USIX WindRiver Tornado/ VxWorks, QNX OS9, OS9000, SCO UNIX UnixWare, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP |
RelX Corporation www.relxnet.com |
|
MS Access 2000 |
92 |
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP |
Microsoft Corporation www.microsoft.com |
|
mSQL |
Unix, Linux |
Hughes Technologies Pty. Ltd. www.hughes.com Open Source |
|
|
MySQL |
92/99 |
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Mac OS X, AIX, SGI Irix, SCO Unix, DEC OSF, BSDi |
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com GNU General Public License |
|
Non-Stop SQL |
92 |
Unix, Windows NT/2000 |
Hewlett-Packard Company http://thenew.hp.com |
|
Ocelot SQLDBMS |
99 |
Windows NT/2000/XP/9x |
Open Source; available for download on the Internet, but the company is no longer in business. www.ocelot.ca GNU General Public License |
|
PostgreSQL v7.2.1 |
92/99 |
AIX, BeOS, FreeBSD, BSD, Tru64 Unix, DG/UX, Linux, Mac OS X, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris, MS Windows NT/2000 |
Open Source Software www.postgresql.org GNU General Public License |
|
Progress v9.0 |
92 |
Sun Solaris, SCO Open Server, IBM AIX, True64 UNIX, HP-UX, Linux, DG/ UX Intel, Citrix MetaFrame, MS Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP |
Progress Software Corp. www.progress.com |
|
Pervasive SQL 2000i |
92/99 |
NetWare, Windows 9x/NT/2000, MS-DOS, Linux |
Pervasive Softwarewww.pervasive.com |
|
Quadbase SQL Server v4.x |
92 |
Novell Netware, Windows 9x/NT/2000 |
Quadbase Systems Inc. www.quadbase.com |
|
RedBase Pure Java RDBMS |
92 |
Any platform for which JVM is implemented |
Bungisoft, Inc www.bungisoft.com |
|
SQLBase v8.0 |
92 |
Windows 98/NT/2000/XP NetWare 5.1 & 6 |
Gupta Technologies, LLC www.centurasoft.com |
|
StorHouse/RM |
92 |
HP-UX, Sun Solaris |
FileTek, Inc. www.filetek.com |
|
Sybase Adaptive Server |
92/99 |
Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI Irix, IBM AIX, Windows NT/2000/ XP, Linux, Mac OS X |
Sybase, Inc. www.sybase.com |
|
TimesTen RDBMS |
Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows NT/2000/XP, LynxOS, Linux |
TimesTen, Inc. www.timesten.com |
|
|
UniVerse |
92 |
Windows NT, Linux, Unix |
IBM www.3.ibm.com/software/data/u2/universe/ |
|
Versant/SQL v6.0 |
92/99 |
Solaris, Microsoft Windows NT, IBM AIX and HP/UX |
Versant Corporation www.versant.com |
