List of relational database management systems

Current software

4th Dimension
4th Dimension (Software)
4th Dimension is a relational database management system and IDE developed by Laurent Ribardière. 4D was created in 1984....
Adabas D
Adabas D
Adabas D is a relational database management system owned by Software AG since 1994, when Software AG acquired SQL-Datenbanksysteme GmbH from Siemens Nixdorf AG....
Alpha Five
Alpha Five
Alpha Five is a relational database management system and Rapid Application Development system for building Windows desktop and Web applications.The most recent version of the product -- Alpha Five v11 was released in October of 2011...
Apache Derby
Apache Derby
Apache Derby is a relational database management system developed by the Apache Software Foundation that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing. It has a 2 MB disk-space footprint.Apache Derby is developed as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license...
Aster Data
Aster Data Systems
Aster Data Systems is a data management and analysis software company headquartered in San Carlos, California. It was founded in 2005 and acquired in 2011.-Products:...
Altibase
Altibase
Altibase helps its customers maximize their data investments by providing real-time data performance solutions. In today’s competitive business environment, Altibase enables companies to drastically improve the speed of data access and analysis across the enterprise....
BlackRay
BlackRay
BlackRay is an open source main memory high-performance relational database management system developed by SoftMethod GmbH. It is designed to provide high performance for SQL queries and also supports a proprietary API. It performs significantly faster than other open source DBMS...
CA-Datacom
DATACOM/DB
Datacom/DB is a relational database management system for the mainframes. Originally developed by Insyte Datacom, later acquired by Applied Data Research, it is now owned by CA Technologies which renamed it to CA-Datacom/DB and later to CA Datacom/DB.- External links :****...
Clarion
Clustrix
CSQL
CSQL
CSQL is an open source main memory high-performance relational database management system developed @ sourceforge.net. It is designed to provide high performance for SQL queries and DML statements....
CUBRID
CUBRID
CUBRID is a comprehensive open source relational database management system highly optimized for Web applications, especially when complex business services process large amount of data and generate huge concurrent requests...
Daffodil database
Daffodil database
Daffodil DB is a SQL 99 & JDBC 3.0 compliant 100% Java relational database management system. It has enterprise level features such as full text search, PSM, triggers, etc. It is available in both Embedded & Network editions....
DataEase
DataEase
DataEase is an RDBMS, and is considered a rapid application development tool for developing relationally-organized, data-intensive software applications for personal computers. DataEase was created in the early 1980s by software developers Arun Gupta and Joseph Busch. The first version of the...
Data Management Center (DMC)
Database Management Library
Database Management Library
DBL - Database Management Library is a RDBMS contained in a C++ programming library. The DBL source code is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License....
Dataphor
Dataphor
Dataphor is an open-source truly relational database management system and its accompanying user interface technologies, which together are designed to provide highly declarative software application development...
DB-Fast
Derby
Apache Derby
Apache Derby is a relational database management system developed by the Apache Software Foundation that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing. It has a 2 MB disk-space footprint.Apache Derby is developed as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license...

aka Java DB
ElevateDB
ElevateDB
ElevateDB is an embedded database engine developed and marketed by ElevateDB supports most of the ANSI SQL:2003 standard with minimal deviations, and includes support for dynamic SQL/PSM in scripts, stored procedures/functions, triggers, and jobs...
Empress Embedded Database
EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB is a privately held company that provides enterprise class support for PostgreSQL through its product Postgres Plus Standard Server, which is PostgreSQL with extra bundled modules...
EffiProz
eXtremeDB
fastDB
FileMaker Pro
Firebird
Firebird (database server)
Firebird is an open source SQL relational database management system that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix. The database forked from Borland's open source edition of InterBase in 2000, but since Firebird 1.5 the code has been largely rewritten ....
FrontBase
Gladius DB
Greenplum
Greenplum
Greenplum is a database software company in San Mateo, California, specializing in enterprise data cloud solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics...
GroveSite
GroveSite
GroveSite is a privately held online collaboration software company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The company offers secure online workspaces, sometimes called hosted wikis, to small and medium-sized businesses, and to larger enterprises who need to collaborate securely outside the IT firewall...
H2
H2 (DBMS)
H2 is a relational database management system written in Java. It can be embedded in Java applications or run in the client-server mode. The disk footprint is about 1 MB....
Helix database
Helix database
Helix is a pioneering database management system for the Apple Macintosh platform, created in 1983. Helix uses a graphical "programming language" to add logic to its applications, allowing non-programmers to construct sophisticated applications...
HSQLDB
HSQLDB
HSQLDB is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92 and SQL:2008 standards. It offers a fast, small database engine which offers both in-memory and disk-based tables...
SQLDB
IBM DB2
IBM DB2
The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...
IBM Lotus Approach
WCE SL Plus
IBM DB2 Express-C
IBM DB2 Express-C
IBM DB2 Express-C is a free to download, use and redistribute edition of the IBM DB2 data server, which has both XML database and relational database management system features.-History:...
Infobright
Infobright
Infobright is a commercial provider of column-oriented relational database software with a focus in machine-generated data. The company's head office is located in Toronto, Canada. Most of its research and development is based in Warsaw, Poland.-History:...
Informix
Informix
IBM Informix is a family of relational database management system developed by IBM. It is positioned as IBM's flagship data server for online transaction processing as well as integrated solutions...
Ingres
InterBase
InterBase
InterBase is a relational database management system currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other DBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-generational architecture...
InterSystems Caché
GT.M
GT.M
GT.M is a high-throughput key-value database engine optimized for transaction processing. GT.M is also an application development platform and a compiler for the ISO standard M language, also known as MUMPS.GT.M, an abbreviation for Greystone Technology M, was developed by the Greystone Technology...
Kognitio
Linter
Linter SQL RDBMS
Linter SQL RDBMS is the main product of RELEX Group. Linter is a Russian DBMS compliant with the SQL-92 standard and supporting the majority of operating systems, among them Win32 , NetWare, various versions of Unix, OS9, QNX, VxWorks and others...
MariaDB
MariaDB
MariaDB is a community-developed branch of the MySQL database, the impetus being the community maintenance of its free status under GPL, as opposed to any uncertainty of MySQL license status under its current ownership by Oracle....
MaxDB
MaxDB
MaxDB is an ANSI SQL-92 compliant relational database management system from SAP AG, which was delivered also by MySQL AB from 2003 to 2007. MaxDB is targeted for large SAP environments e.g. mySAP Business Suite and other applications that require enterprise-level database functionality...
Mckoi SQL Database
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of...
Microsoft Jet Database Engine
Microsoft Jet Database Engine
The Microsoft Jet Database Engine is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built. A database engine is the underlying component of a database, a collection of information stored on a computer in a systematic way...

(part of Microsoft Access
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of...

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Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
Microsoft SQL Server Express
Microsoft Visual FoxPro
Mimer SQL
Mimer SQL
Mimer SQL is an SQL-based relational database management system from the Swedish company Mimer Information Technology AB , which has been developed and produced since the 1970s. The Mimer SQL database engine is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Symbian OS, Unix, VxWorks and OpenVMS...
MonetDB
MonetDB
MonetDB is an open source column-oriented database management system developed at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in the Netherlands.It was designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases,e.g...
mSQL
MSQL
mSQL or Mini SQL is a historically important lightweight database management system from Hughes Technologies.-History:In 1993-94 David Hughes developed a network monitoring and management system called "Minerva". The design of this system required a database management system to store its...
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
Netezza
Netezza
Netezza designs and markets high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics applications for uses including enterprise data warehousing, business intelligence, predictive analytics and business continuity planning....
NonStop SQL
NonStop SQL
Nonstop SQL is software that is developed and sold by Hewlett Packard. Nonstop SQL is a commercial relational database management system that is designed for fault tolerance and scalability. The latest version of the product is SQL/MX 3.0. This was released in February 2011.The product was...
Openbase
OpenBase
OpenBase SQL is a relational database server software, originally developed for the OpenStep platform. First released in 1991, OpenBase is available today for several platforms, although the bulk of its users are on Mac OS X...
OpenLink Virtuoso (Open Source Edition)
OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
Virtuoso Universal Server
Virtuoso Universal Server is a middleware and database engine hybrid that combines the functionality of a traditional RDBMS, ORDBMS, virtual database, RDF, XML, free-text, web application server and file server functionality in a single system...
Oracle
Oracle database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
Oracle Rdb
Oracle Rdb
Rdb/VMS is a relational database management system for the Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS operating system. It was originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984 as part of the VMS Information Architecture, intended to be used for data storage and retrieval by high-level languages and/or...

for OpenVMS
OpenVMS
OpenVMS , previously known as VAX-11/VMS, VAX/VMS or VMS, is a computer server operating system that runs on VAX, Alpha and Itanium-based families of computers. Contrary to what its name suggests, OpenVMS is not open source software; however, the source listings are available for purchase...
Panorama
Panorama (database engine)
Panorama is a database engine and development environment for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.-Overview:Panorama is database software for the Apple Inc. Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. It is a product of ProVUE Development...
Pervasive
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
Progress Software
Progress Software
Progress Software Corporation , formerly Data Language Corporation, is an American software company that sells business application infrastructure software. Its best known product is the OpenEdge ABL , which was developed in the early 1980s. The best known application written in Progress is...
RDM Embedded
RDM Embedded
RDM Embedded is a high performance, ACID-compliant embedded database management system designed to be linked into C/C++ application programs. RDM Embedded has been designed to utilize multi-core computers, networking , and in-memory or on-disk storage. It provides a low-level C API and a higher...
RDM Server
RDM Server
RDM Server is an embeddable, heterogeneous, client/server database management system supporting both C/C++ and SQL APIs for programming flexibility. The databases can be disk resident and/or memory resident. RDM Server implements multi-user locking, hot database backup, and a fully ACID compliant...
The SAS system
SAS System
SAS is an integrated system of software products provided by SAS Institute Inc. that enables programmers to perform:* retrieval, management, and mining* report writing and graphics* statistical analysis...
SAND CDBMS
SAND CDBMS
SAND CDBMS is a column-oriented DBMS software system optimized for business intelligence applications, delivering the data warehousing component, developed by SAND Technology Inc.-Company History:SAND Technology was founded in 1983....
Sav Zigzag
Sav Zigzag
Sav Zigzag is a mobile object-relational DBMS supporting Zigzag language, more expressive than SQL and XQuery. Zigzag algebraic expressions enable lightly to process not only tabular data but also hierarchic, for example XML with its dynamic and multi-level structure...
ScimoreDB
ScimoreDB
ScimoreDB is a proprietary freeware relational database management system for Microsoft Windows, developed by Scimore UAB.It features advanced features: SQL, ACID transactions, Multiversion concurrency control, free text search, shared nothing clustering, functional procedural shipment for...
SmallSQL
SmallSQL
The SmallSQL Database is a 100% pure Java DBMS for desktop applications. It has a JDBC 3.0 driver and supports SQL-92 and SQL-99 standards. It has a very small footprint of approx. 200KB for driver and database together. This is very small for a JDBC 3.0 interface.The difference to other 100% pure...
solidDB
SolidDB
IBM solidDB is a product family, developed and sold by IBM. The product family includes two products built around an in-memory relational database management system. The first product is a stand-alone relational database management system entitled solidDB...
SQLBase
SQLite
SQLite
SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard...
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....
Sybase Adaptive Server IQ
Sybase IQ
Sybase IQ is a relational database software system used for business intelligence and data warehousing, produced by Sybase.-Features:As a column-oriented DBMS, Sybase IQ stores data tables as sections of columns of data rather than as rows of data...
Sybase SQL Anywhere
SQL Anywhere
SQL Anywhere is a relational database management system product from the company Sybase iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase.- Features :...

(formerly known as Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere and Watcom SQL)
Sybase Advantage Database Server
Advantage Database Server
Advantage Database Server is a relational database management system for small to medium sized businesses by Sybase iAnywhere. Database author Cary Jensen describes Advantage as follows: "Advantage has been around since 1993, when it was introduced to provide a stable solution for Clipper...
tdbengine
Tdbengine
Tdbengine is a relational database management system with an integrated programming language. It is designed to handle databases on the web. It connects to the webserver using the standard cgi interface....
Teradata
Teradata
Teradata Corporation is a vendor specializing in data warehousing and analytic applications. Its products are commonly used by companies to manage data warehouses for analytics and business intelligence purposes. Teradata was formerly a division of NCR Corporation, with the spinoff from NCR on...
TimesTen
TimesTen
TimesTen is an in-memory relational database software product from Oracle Corporation. TimesTen is designed for low latency, high-volume data, event and transaction management. Unlike disk-optimized relational databases such as the Oracle database, DB2, Informix, and SQL Server, TimesTen's data is...
txtSQL
TxtSQL
txtSQL is an object-oriented flat-file database management system written in PHP. Working on ordinary text files with increased file-security, it offers support for a small subset of SQL and is extremely efficient in terms of execution time. txtSQL utilizes a file system similar to that of MySQL...
UniData
UniVerse
Valentina (Database)
Vertica
Vertica
Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by database researcher Michael Stonebraker, and Andrew Palmer; its President and CEO is Christopher P. Lynch. HP announced it would acquire the company in February 2011. On March 22, 2011, HP completed...
VistaDB
VMDS
VMDS
VMDS abbreviates the relational database technology called Version Managed Data Store provided by GE Energy as part of its Smallworld technology platform and was designed from the outset to store and analyse the highly complex spatial and topological networks typically used by enterprise utilities...
XSPRADA
Zoduna DataStore (Designed for mobile platforms)

Historical

Britton Lee
Britton Lee, Inc.
Britton Lee Inc. was a pioneering relational database company. Renamed ShareBase, it was acquired by Teradata in June, 1990.-History:Britton Lee was founded in 1979 by David L. Britton, Geoffrey M...

IDMs
Cornerstone
Cornerstone (software)
Cornerstone is a relational database for DOS by Infocom in 1985. It was widely hailed upon its release for its ease of use, but is generally considered one of the leading factors that led to the demise of the company.-History and development:...
DADAISM (Database)
Micro DBMS
Micro DBMS
Micro was one of the earliest set theoretic/relational database management systems. Its major underpinnings and algorithms were based on the set-theoretic model of David Childs of the University of Michigan's CONCOMP Project. It was also influenced to a lesser extent by the relational model made...
Oracle Rdb
Oracle Rdb
Rdb/VMS is a relational database management system for the Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS operating system. It was originally created by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984 as part of the VMS Information Architecture, intended to be used for data storage and retrieval by high-level languages and/or...
Paradox
Paradox (database)
Paradox is a relational database management system currently published by Corel Corporation. It was originally released for DOS by Ansa Software, and then by Borland after it bought the company...
Pick
Pick operating system
The Pick operating system is a demand-paged, multiuser, virtual memory, time-sharing operating system based around a unique "multivalued" database. Pick is used primarily for business data processing...
PRTV
PRTV
PRTV was the world's first relational database management system that could handle significant data volumes....
QBE
Query by Example
Query by Example is a database query language for relational databases. It was devised by Moshé M. Zloof at IBM Research during the mid 1970s, in parallel to the development of SQL. It is the first graphical query language, using visual tables where the user would enter commands, example elements...
SQL/DS
SQL/DS
SQL/DS was IBM's first commercial implementation for its mainframe computers of a DBMS built around the SQL language....
Sybase SQL Server

Current

Alphora Dataphor
Dataphor
Dataphor is an open-source truly relational database management system and its accompanying user interface technologies, which together are designed to provide highly declarative software application development...

(a proprietary virtual, federated DBMS and RAD MS .Net IDE).
Bandicoot (open source DBMS)
CsiDB (proprietary C++ library).
D flat (unreleased MS .Net academic project).
Duro (free C library).
Opus (free C libraries).
Rel
Rel (DBMS)
Rel is an open source true relational database management system that implements a significant portion of Chris Date and Hugh Darwen's Tutorial D query language.Primarily intended for teaching purposes, Rel is written in the Java programming language....

(free Java implementation).
Muldis Rosetta (free Perl implementation).
Aldat (implemented in Relix and JRelix): A pure relational DBMS implemented in McGill University. It features clear syntax and domain algebra operators.

Obsolete

IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

Business System 12
Business System 12
Business System 12, or simply BS12, was one of the first fully relational database management systems, designed and implemented by IBM's Bureau Service subsidiary at the company's international development centre in Uithoorn, Netherlands. Programming started in 1978 and the first version was...
IBM IS1
IS1
IS/1 was the world's first relational database system, implemented at the IBM United Kingdom Scientific Centre in Peterlee in the years 1970–1972. It had limited facilities but implemented a true relational model. It was the precursor to PRTV....
IBM PRTV
PRTV
PRTV was the world's first relational database management system that could handle significant data volumes....

(ISBL)
Multics Relational Data Store
Multics Relational Data Store
Multics Relational Data Store was the first commercial relational database management system. It was sold for the first time in 1976....
CDCIM/DM

Current software

Historical

Current

Obsolete

See also