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 |  Berkeley DB (Linux, Windows, Mac) by Sleepycat Software, the most widely used application-specific data management software in the world with more than 200 million deployments. Customers such as Amazon, AOL, British Telecom, Cisco Systems, EMC, Ericsson, Google, Hitachi, HP, Motorola, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO and Veritas also rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. | |  | |  Firebird (Linux, Windows) is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981.Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) under the InterBase Public License v.1.0 on 25 July, 2000. | | | |  MaxDB (Linux, Windows, Solaris, Aix) by MySQL is a re-branded and enhanced version of SAP DB, SAP AG's open source database. MaxDB is a heavy-duty, SAP-certified open source database that offers high availability, scalability and a comprehensive feature set. MaxDB complements the MySQL database server, targetted for large mySAP ERP environments and other applications that require maximum enterprise-level database functionality.
MaxDB is available under the MySQL AB "dual licensing" model. Under this model, users may choose to use MySQL products under the free software/opensource GNU General Public License (commonly known as the "GPL") or under a commercial license. | |  | |  MySQL (Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD, Solaris) database server is the world's most popular open source database. With more than five million active installations, MySQL has quickly become the core of many high-volume, business-critical applications. Customers such as Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL's high performance, reliable database management software to power large Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software applications. | | | |  PostgreSQL (Linux, Windows) Global Development Group is a community of companies and people co-operating to drive the development of PostgreSQL, the worlds most advanced Open Source database software.
The PostgreSQL software itself had its beginnings in 1986 inside the University of California at Berkeley as a research prototype, and in the 16 years since has moved to its now globally distributed development model, with central servers based in Canada. | | | |  SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. A complete database is stored in a single disk file. Database files can be freely shared between machines with different byte orders. The SQLite distribution comes with a standalone command-line access program that can be used to administer an SQLite database and which serves as an example of how to use the SQLite library. | | | |
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