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  MySQL Community Edition

  Open Source by Oracle |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.

    Development   database, sql, relational-database, t-sql

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  SQLite

  Open Source |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source...

    Development   database, sql, relational-database, embedded-database

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  PostgreSQL

  Open Source |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data...

    Development   database, sql, object-relational-database

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  LibreOffice - Base

  Open Source by The Document Foundation |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  Base is a full-featured desktop database front end, designed to meet the needs of a broad array of users, for all kinds of usages, such as keeping track of collections of objects,maintaining customer...

    Office & Productivity   database, database-management, libreoffice

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  MongoDB

  Open Source by 10gen, Inc. |

  Mac, Windows, Linux, Online

  Not an alternative?

  MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. The database is document-oriented so it manages collections of JSON-like documents. Many applications can thus...

    Office & Productivity   database, documents, nosql, replication, map-reduce

  +4 more document-database, sharding, gridfs, indexed

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  Microsoft SQL Server

  Commercial by Microsoft |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  SQL Server delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage your data by enabling you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents within the...

    Development   database, sql, t-sql, relation-database

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  MariaDB

  Open Source |

  Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  MariaDB is a backward compatible, drop-in replacement of the MySQL® Database Server. It includes all major open source storage engines. The source code for MariaDB is publically available from...

    Development   database, sql, relational-database, database-free

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  Microsoft SQL Server Express

  Free by Microsoft |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  SQL Server Express Edition is the next version of MSDE and is a free, easy-to-use, lightweight, and embeddable version of SQL Server. Continue reading to learn more about the benefits of SQL Server Express...

    Development   database, sql, sql-server, relational-database

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  FileMaker

  Commercial by FileMaker, Inc |

  Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows

  Not an alternative?

  FileMaker Pro is powerful, easy-to-use database software that helps you and your team get any task done faster. Millions of people in business, government, and education use FileMaker Pro to effortlessly...

    Office & Productivity   database, reports, database-management

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  Oracle Database

  Commercial by Oracle |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  Oracle Database delivers industry leading performance, scalability, security and reliability on a choice of clustered or single-servers running Windows, Linux, and UNIX. It provides comprehensive features to...

    Development   database, relational-database, rdbms

  +2 more business-database, sap

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  HSQLDB

  Open Source |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  HSQLDB (Hyper Structured Query Language Database) is a relational database management system written in Java. It has a JDBC driver and supports a large subset of SQL-92 and SQL:2008 standards. It offers a...

    Development   database, sql, rdbms

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  CUBRID Database

  Open Source by NHN Corporation |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  CUBRID is a comprehensive GPL/BSD open source relational database management system highly optimized for Web Applications. CUBRID is being developed in C/C++. Includes native HA, online hot backup, and other...

    Development   database, sql, hot-backup, high-availability

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  Apache OpenOffice Base

  Open Source by Apache Software Foundation |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  Base, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, offers help to users new to database design (or just new to Base) to create Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports, along with a set of predefined table definitions for...

    Office & Productivity   xml, database-management, openoffice-suite, tables

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  IBM DB2

  Free* by IBM |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  DB2 offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform from Linux to z/OS. DB2 supports storing XML and relational data and offers SQL PL and PL/SQL procedural languages.

    Development   database, sql, xquery

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  Firebird

  Open Source |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  Firebird 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...

    Development   database, mysql, sql, postgresql, relational-database

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  Mimer SQL

  Commercial |

  Mac, Windows, Windows Mobile, Android, Linux, Symbian S60

  Not an alternative?

  Mimer SQL is an SQL-based relational database management system from the Swedish company Mimer Information Technology AB (formerly: Upright Database Technology AB), which has been developed and produced since...

    Development   database, sql, rdbms

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  H2 Database Engine

  Open Source |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  H2 is a relational database management system written in Java. It can be embedded in Java applications or run in the client-server mode. The disk footprint (size of the jar file) is about 1 MB. The software...

    Development   database, sql, rdbms

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  Frontbase

  Free |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  FrontBase was created to fill the need for a robust and scalable relational database server that was Internet enabled, had no downtime, and required zero administration. FrontBases speed, wide range of...

    Development   database, relational-database

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  SAP HANA

  Commercial by SAP |

  Online

  Not an alternative?

  SAP HANA is a completely re-imagined platform for real-time business. It transforms business by streamlining transactions, analytics, planning, predictive, sentiment data processing on a single in-memory...

    Development   database, sql, business-intelligence

  +7 more relational-database, nosql, rdbms, business-database, t-sql, in-memory, in-memory-database

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  Oracle TimesTen

  Commercial |

  Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  TimesTen is a memory-optimized, relational database management system with persistence and recoverability. Originally designed and implemented at Hewlett-Packard labs in Palo Alto, California, TimesTen was...

    Development   database, sql, business-intelligence

  +7 more relational-database, nosql, rdbms, business-database, t-sql, object-relational-database, in-memory-database

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