Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Rüdiger Voigt | last update: 2017-11-08
Relational Databases
| Name |
License |
Comment |
| MariaDB |
Open Source |
Fork of MySQL. |
| MySQL |
Open Source |
Widely used for hosting websites. |
| PostgreSQL |
Open Source |
PostGIS adds support to store geographic objects. |
| Oracle |
proprietary |
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| IBM DB2 |
proprietary |
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| IBM Informix |
proprietary |
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| Microsoft SQL Server |
proprietary |
An interesting new feature of the 2016 edition is the ability to include R-Scripts. |
| SQLite |
Open Source |
Optimized for an extremely light memory footprint. Therefore widely used in embedded devices and smartphones. |
| Firebird |
Open Source |
|
In-Memory Databases
| Name |
License |
Comment |
| SAP HANA |
proprietary |
|
Graph Databases
| Name |
License |
Comment |
| Neo4j |
proprietary |
There is a Community Edition. |
| FlockDB |
Open Source |
Developed by Twitter for their usecase. It will not be optimized for multi-hop queries / graph-walking queries. |
| Oracle Spatial and Graph |
proprietary |
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| JanusGraph |
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No-SQL Databases
Cloud Databases /Database as a Service