Does anyone have a favorite site providing a comprehensive (or close)
list of database management systems, spanning both "relational" and
non-relational DBMS offerings, that can be licensed today? Historical
ones are fine too, preferably identified as such. All URL's of such
listings are welcome. Thanks. --dawn

On Jul 9, 7:11 am, dawn <dawnwolth... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
well... i was never bothered with comprehensiveness but in order of
priority i list the following RDBMSes:-
mysql - because its free, easy to use & available for linux. excellent
documentation. RDBMS (check). www.mysql.com
firebird - another free, easy to use & available for windows. RDBMS.
adequate documentation. www.firebird.com
postgresql - a free, powerful RDBMS. available for windows. adequate
documentation. www.posgresql.com

besides other RDBMS that you can google for are:-
sybase
db2 express (from ibm, available for free download from ibm.com)
microsoft's sql server (check whether u can get it from microsoft. i
dont think so).
oracle personal edition (from oracle.com, available for free download)

also you can search this newsgroup as this question has been asked
several times in the past.

On 10.07.2007 16:11 punit arya wrote:
In my opinion: PostgreSQL's documentation is excellent, MySQL's
documentation is average (although since they split the manuals for each
version it has become a lot better)

Firbird's documentation is poor because there is no full set available.
Information is partly contained in old Interbase manuals which cannot be
downloaded from the Firebird site and partly contained in the release
notes for each release.
There is no complete set available for a specific release.

My personal favorite is Postgres

Thomas

punit arya <arya.punit (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

doubt that MySQL is free
<http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/opensource-license.html>.
Unlike other open source databases MySQL AB says that _using_ their
open source libraries to access the database makes your application a
"derived work" and therefore must be open source licensed.
from <http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx>.

On Jul 10, 9:11 am, punit arya <arya.pu... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
I did search first and did not come up with any good URL's. When I
googled, I came up with a good list of "relational databases" that I
will need to find again. I can list a bunch off the top of my head,
but I am looking for a list that would include at least the vast
majority of those that industry analysts such as the Gartner Group
might evaluate in one category or another, and then some. For
example, I would like something a bit more comprehensive, even if not
perfectly complete, than this list off the top of my head:

SQL Server
UniData
UniVerse
Revelation
jBASE
Cache'
My SQL
SQLite
DB2
Sybase
Postgresql
Oracle
Berkeley-DB
OpenQM
EnterpriseDB
D3
Progress
Derby
MarkLogic
TigerLogic
XML-DBMS
Virtuoso
Adabas
Access
UniVision
FileMaker
Informix
IDMS
IMS
FoxPro
Paradox

I'm slowing down, so I'll quit here. I'm thinking about the
categorization of databases and it would be helpful to start with a
list that is better researched than mine for starters Thanks. --
dawn

dawn <dawnwolthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

disparate group of names. They range from RAD programming languages
that can be front ends to almost any relational database such as
Access to programs that cannot not be classed as relational databases
such as Berkley-DB. Some, like Oracle and Sybase, are simply company
names that market a range of products.

I try to maintain two small lists of well defined subsets of
relational databases at <http://database.profectus.com.au>. I doubt
that I have really satisfied this modest goal and, despite help from
contributors to this news group, a couple of databases were omitted
that should have been included and at least one was included that did
not belong. Your list would require a full time staff to maintain and
a new taxonomy for defining databases and database "IDEs".

On Jul 10, 12:43 pm, David Segall <d... (AT) address (DOT) invalid> wrote:
I'm not looking for perfection on it. I just figured that someone
would have such a list out on the web that would be more comprehensive
than most others.

The common thread in these products is that one can use the "database
management system" that is included in the product to both persist and
retrieve data.

I am definitely NOT concerned to only get those DBMS's that claim to
be relational. I would like a full range of the options available to
those who are writing new software.

Thanks, I see I missed a couple of those in my list, so that is
helpful.

I agree that keeping such maintained would be a big deal, and I am not
planning to do such, but figured that someone out there might be.
There is a good list associated with the XML site from Ron Bourret,
but it is strictly related to databases as they relate to XML.

Thanks. --dawn

On Jul 10, 12:08 pm, dawn <dawnwolth... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
all those UNI*s but not UNIFY Data Server.


Ed.

On Jul 10, 2:19 pm, dawn <dawnwolth... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
There is a reason most Database lists stay with only Relational (or
nearly so) DBMS products. The pre-Relational models (flat file,
hierarchical, network) each have severe flaws and the so-called post-
Relational seem to so far simply to repeat the errors of the past.

As you note in your final paragraph, you may have to settle for a list
of sites that cater to each type.

Good luck.
Ed

On Jul 10, 2:55 pm, Ed Prochak <edproc... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
That's why I can't just rely on the "top of my head" list. Thanks. --
dawn