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.

Table K-1: RDBMS Software Vendors

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