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relational database management system
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relati ...
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4th Dimension
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Access Database Engine
The Access Database Engine (also Office Access Connectivity Engine or ACE and formerly Microsoft Jet Database Engine, ''Microsoft JET Engine'' or simply ''Jet'') is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built. The firs ...
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Adabas D
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Airtable
Airtable is a cloud collaboration service headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas.
Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid, with the features of a database but applied to a spr ...
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Apache Derby
Apache Derby (previously distributed as IBM Cloudscape) is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by the Apache Software Foundation that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing. It has a 3. ...
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Apache Ignite
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Aster Data
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Amazon Aurora
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Altibase
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CA Datacom
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CA IDMS
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Clarion
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ClickHouse
ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented DBMS (columnar database management system) for online analytical processing (OLAP) that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time. ClickHouse Inc. is headquartered in ...
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Clustrix
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CockroachDB
CockroachDB is a commercial distributed SQL database management system, developed by Cockroach Labs.
History
Cockroach Labs was founded in 2015 by ex-Google employees Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis, and Ben Darnell. Cockroach Labs founders K ...
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CSQL
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CUBRID
CUBRID ( "cube-rid") is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system (RDBMS) with object extensions developed by CUBRID Corp. for OLTP. The name CUBRID is a combination of the two words ''cube'' and ''bridge'', ''cube'' standing ...
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DataEase
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DataFlex
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Database Management Library
Database Management Library (DBL) is a relational database management system (RDBMS) contained in a C++ programming library. The DBL source code is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
DBL was fully developed within two ...
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Dataphor
Dataphor is an open-source truly-relational database management system (RDBMS) and its accompanying user interface technologies, which together are designed to provide highly declarative software application development. The Dataphor Server has i ...
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dBase
dBase (also stylized dBASE) was one of the first database management systems for microcomputers and the most successful in its day. The dBase system includes the core database engine, a query system, a forms engine, and a programming langua ...
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Derby
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gain ...
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Empress Embedded Database
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Exasol
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Extensible Storage Engine
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EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB (EDB), a privately held company based in Massachusetts, provides software and services based on the open-source database PostgreSQL (also known as Postgres), and is one of the largest contributors to Postgres. EDB develops and inte ...
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eXtremeDB
eXtremeDB is a high performance, low-latency, ACID-compliant embedded database management system using an in-memory database system (IMDS) architecture and designed to be linked into C/ C++ based programs. It works on Windows, Linux, and othe ...
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FileMaker Pro
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Firebird
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FoundationDB
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FrontBase
FrontBase is a relational database management system written in ANSI C. FrontBase uses the Unicode character encoding.
International standards
FrontBase complies with SQL 92 (fully compliant), Unicode (Unicode 2.0) and TCP/IP (uses sockets).
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Greenplum
Greenplum is a big data technology based on MPP architecture and the Postgres open source database technology. The technology was created by a company of the same name headquartered in San Mateo, California around 2005. Greenplum was acquire ...
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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 ...
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H2
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Helix
A helix () is a shape like a corkscrew or spiral staircase. It is a type of smooth space curve with tangent lines at a constant angle to a fixed axis. Helices are important in biology, as the DNA molecule is formed as two intertwined hel ...
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HSQLDB
HSQLDB (''Hyper SQL Database'') is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92, SQL:2008, SQL:2011, and SQL:2016 standards. It offers a fast, small (around 1300 kilobyt ...
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IBM Db2
Db2 is a family of data management products, including database servers, developed by IBM. It initially supported the relational model, but was extended to support object–relational features and non-relational structures like JSON and ...
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IBM Lotus Approach
Lotus Approach is a relational database management system included in IBM's Lotus SmartSuite for Microsoft Windows.
As a start-up company, Approach was formed in 1991 and won over 30 awards the first year, including "best of show" at Comdex. T ...
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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, Ontario, Canada. Most of its research and development is based in Wa ...
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Informix
IBM Informix is a product family within IBM's Information Management division that is centered on several relational database management system (RDBMS) offerings. The Informix products were originally developed by Informix Corporation, whose ...
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Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the a ...
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InterBase
InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi ...
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InterSystems Caché
InterSystems Caché ( ) is a commercial operational database management system from InterSystems, used to develop software applications for healthcare management, banking and financial services, government, and other sectors. Customer software ca ...
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InterSystems IRIS Data Platform
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Linter
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MariaDB
MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the ...
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MaxDB
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Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which ...
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Microsoft SQL Server Express
Microsoft SQL Server Express is a version of Microsoft's SQL Server relational database management system that is free to download, distribute and use. It comprises a database specifically targeted for embedded and smaller-scale applications. Th ...
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SQL Azure (Cloud SQL Server)
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Microsoft Visual FoxPro
Visual FoxPro is a Microsoft data-centric procedural programming language with object-oriented programming (OOP) features.
It was derived from FoxPro (originally known as FoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984. Fox Te ...
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Mimer SQL
Mimer SQL is an SQL-based relational database management system produced by the Swedish company ''Mimer Information Technology AB'' (Mimer AB), formerly known as ''Upright Database Technology AB''. It was originally developed as a research proje ...
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MonetDB
MonetDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database management system (RDBMS) originally developed at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands.
It is designed to provide high performance on complex queries against lar ...
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mSQL
Mini SQL (abbreviated mSQL) is a 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 databa ...
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MySQL
MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database ...
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Netezza
IBM Netezza (pronounced ne-teez-a) is a subsidiary of American technology company IBM that designs and markets high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics applications for uses including enterprise data warehousing, busine ...
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NexusDB
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NonStop SQL NonStop SQL is a commercial relational database management system that is designed for fault tolerance and scalability, currently offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The latest version is SQL/MX 3.4.
The product was originally developed by Tand ...
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NuoDB
NuoDB is a cloud-native distributed SQL database company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2008 and incorporated in 2010, NuoDB technology has been used by Dassault Systèmes, as well as FinTech and financial industry entities inclu ...
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Omnis Studio
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OpenLink Virtuoso (Open Source Edition)
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OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
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Oracle
An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination.
Description
The wor ...
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Oracle Rdb for
OpenVMS
OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation applications. Customers using Ope ...
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Panorama
A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling. The word was originally coined in ...
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Paradox
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically u ...
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Percona Server for MySQL
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Percona XtraDB Cluster
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Pervasive PSQL
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Polyhedra
In geometry, a polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons; ) is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.
A convex polyhedron is the convex hull of finitely many points, not all on t ...
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PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL (, ), also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. It was originally named POSTGRES, referring to its origins as a successor to the In ...
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Postgres Plus Advanced Server
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Progress Software
Progress Software Corporation (Progress) is an American public company that offers software for creating and deploying business applications. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with offices in 16 countries, the company posted revenues ...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM)
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RDM Server
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R:Base
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RethinkDB
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SAND CDBMS
SAND Nucleus 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.
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SAP HANA
SAP HANA (HochleistungsANalyseAnwendung or High-performance ANalytic Application) is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP SE. Its primary function as the software running a databas ...
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SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise
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SAP IQ (formerly known as Sybase IQ)
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SingleStore
SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is a proprietary, cloud-native database designed for data-intensive applications. A distributed, relational, SQL database management system (RDBMS) that features ANSI SQL support, it is known for speed in da ...
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Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse
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solidDB
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SQL Anywhere (formerly known as Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere and Watcom SQL)
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SQLBase
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SQLite
SQLite (, ) is a database engine written in the C programming language. It is not a standalone app; rather, it is a library that software developers embed in their apps. As such, it belongs to the family of embedded databases. It is the mo ...
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SQream DB
SQream is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia.
SQream is designed for big data analytics using the Structured Query Language (SQL).
History
SQream is the first product from SQr ...
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SAP Advantage Database Server (formerly known as Sybase Advantage Database Server)
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Teradata
Teradata Corporation is an American software company that provides cloud database and analytics-related software, products, and services. The company was formed in 1979 in Brentwood, California, as a collaboration between researchers at Caltech a ...
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TiDB
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TimesTen
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Trafodion
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Unisys RDMS 2200
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UniData
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UniVerse
The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. A ...
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Vectorwise
Actian Vector (formerly known as VectorWise) is an SQL relational database management system designed for high performance in analytical database applications.
It published record breaking results on the Transaction Processing Performance Coun ...
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Vertica
Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company. Vertica was founded in 2005 by the database researcher Michael Stonebraker, with Andrew Palmer as the founding CEO. Ralph Breslauer and Christopher P. Lynch served as later ...
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VoltDB
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YugabyteDB
Front-end User interfaces Only
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Apache OpenOffice Base
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HSQLDB
HSQLDB (''Hyper SQL Database'') is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92, SQL:2008, SQL:2011, and SQL:2016 standards. It offers a fast, small (around 1300 kilobyt ...
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LibreOffice Base
LibreOffice Base is a free and open-source database development and administration tool for relational database management systems that is part of the LibreOffice office suite. LibreOffice Base was built off of a fork of OpenOffice.org and was f ...
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Firebird
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HSQLDB
HSQLDB (''Hyper SQL Database'') is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92, SQL:2008, SQL:2011, and SQL:2016 standards. It offers a fast, small (around 1300 kilobyt ...
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Microsoft Access
Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Access Database Engine (ACE) with a graphical user interface and software-development tools (not to be confused with the old Microsoft Access ...
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Access Database Engine
The Access Database Engine (also Office Access Connectivity Engine or ACE and formerly Microsoft Jet Database Engine, ''Microsoft JET Engine'' or simply ''Jet'') is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built. The firs ...
Discontinued
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Britton Lee IDMs
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Cornerstone
The cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.
Over ti ...
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DM/BasisPlus
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Google Fusion Tables
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IBM Business System 12
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IBM System R
IBM System R is a database system built as a research project at IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory beginning in 1974. System R was a seminal project: it was the first implementation of SQL, which has since become the standard relational data ...
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MICRO Relational Database Management System The MICRO Relational Database Management System was the first large-scale set-theoretic database management system to be used in production. Though MICRO was initially considered to be an "Information Management System", it was eventually recognize ...
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Pick
Pick may refer to:
Places
* Pick City, North Dakota, a town in the United States
* Pick Lake (Cochrane District, Ontario), a lake in Canada
* Pick Lake (Thunder Bay District), a lake in Canada
* Pick Mere, a lake in Pickmere, England
People wit ...
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PRTV PRTV (''Peterlee Relational Test Vehicle'') was the world's first relational database management system
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A syst ...
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QBE
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IBM SQL/DS
SQL/DS (Structured Query Language/Data System), released in 1981, was IBM's first commercial relational-database management system. It implemented the SQL database-query language.
SQL/DS ran on the DOS/VSE and VM/CMS operating systems. A littl ...
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Sybase SQL Server
Front-end User interfaces Only
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OpenOffice.org Base
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed), Apache OpenOffice, Collabora Online (enterprise ready LibreOffice ...
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HSQLDB
HSQLDB (''Hyper SQL Database'') is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92, SQL:2008, SQL:2011, and SQL:2016 standards. It offers a fast, small (around 1300 kilobyt ...
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StarBase
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Adabas D
Relational by the Date–Darwen–Pascal Model
Current
* Alphora
Dataphor
Dataphor is an open-source truly-relational database management system (RDBMS) and its accompanying user interface technologies, which together are designed to provide highly declarative software application development. The Dataphor Server has i ...
(a proprietary virtual, federated DBMS and RAD MS .Net IDE).
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Rel (free Java implementation).
Obsolete
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IBM 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. ...
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IBM IS1
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PRTV PRTV (''Peterlee Relational Test Vehicle'') was the world's first relational database management system
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A syst ...
(ISBL)
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Multics Relational Data Store
The Multics Relational Data Store, or MRDS for short, was the first commercial relational database management system. It was written in PL/1 by Honeywell for the Multics operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that mana ...
See also
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Comparison of object–relational database management systems
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Comparison of relational database management systems
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of relational database management systems. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are ba ...
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Comparison of database administration tools
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Relational Database Management Systems
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...
Relational database management systems