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Commercial:
- Oracle: Oracle currently
makes their database server software products and support fully
available on Linux. The latest trend is to support blade computing on
Linux. Oracle supports a procedural extension to SQL called PL/SQL
which adds capability and advantages when used with triggers and
database scripts. Oracle also has a full suite of development tools as
well as remote access administration tools. (Free trial download)
- IBM DB2 universal database for Linux: This is IBM's flagship database used in large enterprise data centers. (Free trial download)
- IBM Lotus Notes: (Not really a database in my opinion but it does run on Linux)
- IBM/Informix -
Informix introduced many of the latest database technologies and was
considered the most advanced. They were also a case study in poor
marketing and were eventually purchased by IBM to save themselves from
going under. It may also save IBM from falling too far behind. Informix
for Linux is now available from IBM.
- IBM/Ascential Software - Warehouse to web e-business WebSphere Information Integration solutions. (Split from Informix)
- Sybase for Linux -
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 11.0.3.3 (No commercial license fees.)
- Borland Interbase -
FireBird (now open source and called FireBird)
- Empress: Embedded Database
- Adabas (from Germany)
- Revolutionary Software: rdb - relational database management and application development. Shell commands.
- FairCom: C-Tree, Database server and Server SDK - file management, ISAM, ODBC multithreaded API. Full source code.
- Pick Systems: D3 - Database server. Also FlashConnect, FlashBASIC
- Solid (from Finland)
- MIMER SQL DBMS - ISO PSM standard used for stored procedures.
- Cache - They brag about speed and their widespread use in healthcare.
- FTS International: YARD - SQL database
- Pervasive - SQL 2000 server database and and SDK. Supports JDBC, ODBC
- OpenLink Software: Virtuoso - SQL, XML, WebDAV, SOAP, WSDL, ODBC, JDBC web services database.
- Oracle: Berkeley Db - small tight and often used in embedded systems.
- DBMaker: SQL
database. Supports ODBC, XML, COBOL, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Perl
and PHP. Used to add database functionality to software.
Open Source:
- PostgresSQL - included on Redhat distro
- mySQL - Official Home Page
- Drizzle - Streamlined MySQL with features stripped (no views, no triggers, no stored procedures, no ACL, ...) to support massive concurrency
- SQLite: Embed a SQL engine in your application. Public domain.
- GNU: gdbm - extensible hashing (clone of UNIX dbm)
- SapDb - SAP released open source database
- Computer Associates Ingress Open Source
- CQL++: ANSI and ODBC
compliant, SQL and B-tree/ISAM database management system. Perform SQL
and ISAM operations from within C++ programs.
- GigaBASE: For large (Tbyte) file based databases. C++ API. Inherits most of the features of FastDB.
- FastDB: Tight integration with C++.
Java based DB Software Products:
- Apache Derby:
open source relational database implemented entirely in Java. Derby is
small enough to be embedded in Java applications or it can accessed in
client/server mode using JDBC.
- HSQL Database engine: Small. Can be embedded within an application.
- Mckoi SQL Database: Supports transactions, triggers. GPL open source.
- DaffodilDB.com -
Daffodil DBv3.1 is a J2EE certified, SQL-99 and JDBC 3.0 standards
compliant, platform independent and easily embeddedable 100% Java
RDBMS.
Other Linux DB Software Products:
- Abriasoft - Merlin, tools for MySql DB developers.
- CodeByDesign.com (Cross-platform, cross-database.)
- Data Architecting: entity relationship diagrams.
- SQL Project: SQL Validator and editor.
- Code Constructor: logic diagramming, RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool.
- Report Constructor
- Data Constructor: Data dictionary tool for describing enterprise data.
- Inoflex: SqlFlex, Queryflex, 4GL, AccountFlex - Report Writer for Non-programmers. Lots of Informix like tools. Accounting systems
- Unify - J2EE enterprise application support, Shopping carts and e-commerce solutions, 4GL.
- DataModes: TM4 -
Integrated data processing solution. Applications include Wholesale
Distribution (mail order), Equipment Sales and Service, Manufacturing
and Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food.
- Simtech: DBOPS - Programs to manipulate ASCII databases
- PlugSys: Max, MSP, OxBC - Connects to FoxPro, dBase, CA-Clipper. Application development for text and web applications.
- Munica - CGI archive, web form tools and e-commerce solutions.
- OpenLink Software: Virtuoso - Virtual Database. Derive data from heterogeneous data sources. XML based e-business solutions.
- Herrin Software - Faunix: Veterinary practice management
- EasySoft ODBC-ODBC, JDBC-ODBC bridge and SQL engine - Unix ODBC driver manager to multiple ODBC sources
- PlugSys International: MAX and MSP - Generates character based applications and dynamic web applications.
- Automation Technology: Open RDA - ODBC driver for Linux
- AD Software - Cross-Platform C++ Programming Tools
- Report Writer - OOFILE report-writer is a cross-platform, open-source report-writer for C++
Other and MS/Windows:
- Embarcadero - Tools for DBA's to design and manage a database. ER/Studio, GDPro, Rapid SQL, DBArtisan. - Windows only products.
- KE Software -
Database and Collection Management Software. Electronic Museum, Vital
Statistics, Texpress Object Oriented Database and Software Library
Databases.
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"Oracle Database 10g: The Complete Reference"
by Kevin Loney
ISBN # 0072253517, McGraw-Hill Osborne
If you are going to own only one Oracle reference, then this is it. It covers
it all. (It's a big book)
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"Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming"
by Scott Urman
ISBN # 0072191473, McGraw-Hill Osborne
This is a required reference if you are going to use the full power of the
Oracle database. In depth look at triggers, functions, cursors, packages,
external procedures, ...
This is for Oracle users who are programming Oracle within the Oracle
environment. For programmers wishing to interface with Oracle from
software, use Pro*C.
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"Oracle10g: A Beginner's Guide"
by Ian Abramson, Michael Abbey, Michael Corey
ISBN # 0072230789, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
If you are lost and need a place to start, then get this book. It covers
basic DBA functions, data import/export, SQL, PL/SQL, ...
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"Complete Guide to DB2 Universal Database"
by D. D. Chamberlin
ISBN # 1558604820, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
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"PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts"
by Bruce Momjian
ISBN # 0201703319, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
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"MySQL, Second edition"
by Paul DuBois
ISBN # 0735712123, New Riders Publishing
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"Managing and Using MySQL"
by George Reese, Randy Jay Yarger, Tim King
ISBN # 0596002114, O'Reilly
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"MySQL Cookbook"
by Paul DuBois
ISBN # 0596001452, O'Reilly
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"High Performance MySQL"
by Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling
ISBN # 0596003064, O'Reilly
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"The Definitive Guide to MySQL, Second Edition"
by Michael Kofler
ISBN # 1590591445, APress
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"MySQL Certification Study Guide"
by Paul Dubois, Stefan Hinz, Carsten Pedersen
ISBN # 0672326329, Sams
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"Informix Handbook"
by Ron M. Flannery
ISBN # 0130122475, Prentice Hall PTR
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