A list of database-related software packages available from commercial suppliers free of charge.
The packages listed below were announced to be free of charge at least for academic or personal use. Licence terms are matter of the supplier of the package. The date behind the package name (if present) indicates the issue date of the last release of the package. When available, contact email address and a link to the license terms are provided.
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Backplane Open Source Database (9-Apr-2003)- Backplane offers an open source, replicated
database for Linux and FreeBSD. Free and commercial
licenses are available. With Backplane, it is possible
to spread the database nodes widely, allowing database
operations to work efficiently over WAN latencies
while maintaining full transactional coherency across
the entire replication group. - Supplier: Backplane, Inc.
- Contact: Info desk, info@backplane.com
- License terms: see here
Berkeley DB- Open source DBMS for embedded systems, originally developed at Berkeley; download and use free
but not re-distribution. - Supplier: Sleepycat Software
- License terms: see here
CodeCogs (March 2005)- An open source scientific library / database in C++ containing numerical software components,
from which efficient scientific, engineering and financial applications can be built. - Supplier: CodeCogs, Zyba Ltd
- Contact: Nick Owens, nick@codecogs.com
- License terms: see here
Erlang/OTP (May 11, 2005)- Erlang is a programming language for building
fault-tolerant distributed applications. It
includes field-proven middleware components
such as the Mnesia DBMS. Mnesia, itself written in
Erlang, is a multiuser, distributed DBMS with
full ACID properties. It runs safely in the same
memory space as the application, and with no
semantic gap. - Supplier: Ericsson AB
- Contact: Kenneth Lundin, Ericsson AB, kenneth.lundin@uab.ericsson.se
- License terms: see here
Froglingo (January 2005)- A unified language for both
database and programming based on the lambda-calculus and the function
space theory. A database application with 1000 lines of code in
Java/SQL could be constructed with 100 lines of code in Froglingo. - Supplier: Bigravity, www.bigravity.com
- Contact: Kevin Xu, kevin.xu@bigravity.com
- License terms: see here
IBM Data Studio (2012)- IBM Data Studio provides database developers and DBAs an integrated,
modular environment for productive administration of DB2 for Linux, UNIX
and Windows. It also provides collaborative database development tools for
DB2, Informix, Oracle, and Sybase at no charge. - Supplier: IBM
- Contact: Data Studio team, dstudio@us.ibm.com
- License terms: A link to the license terms is provided prior to the software package download
IBM DB2 Express-C (2012)- DB2 Express-C is the no charge edition of the IBM DB2 database server for
Linux, Unix, and Windows. There’s no charge for deployment. It is designed
as a fast, secure and reliable data server, great for startups and
small/medium sized businesses. - Supplier: IBM
- Contact: DB2 Express-C Team, db2x@ca.ibm.com
- License terms: A link to the license terms is provided prior to the software package download
IBM Informix Innovator-C Edition (2012)- IBM Informix Innovator-C Edition enables you to use the most common
database functionality at no charge. It is designed for low-cost embedded
or workgroup computing. This database is ideal for small-to-midsized
business solutions that require a robust database with little or no
administration. Redistribution requires a separate license. - Supplier: IBM
- Contact: Informix team, askifmx@us.ibm.com
- License terms: A link to the license terms is provided prior to the software package download
IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Basic Edition (2012)- IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Basic Edition is an integrated, tested and
pre-configured,no charge download for anyone who wants to experiment with
Hadoop. Solutions developed using InfoSphere BigInsights Basic Edition can
be deployed using BigInsights Enterprise Edition. - Supplier: IBM
- Contact: Information Management Cloud Team,
imcloud@ca.ibm.com - License terms: A link to the license terms is provided prior to the software package download
Knowledge Base Software System (January 10, 2009)- Web-based collaboration and business knowledge base software tool to share
knowledge with customers, employees and partners. Includes natural-language search, workflow and LDAP systems. - Supplier: Web-Site-Scripts.com Inc.
- Contact: Gregory Koldirkaev, marketing@web-site-scripts.com
- License terms: see here
Mckoi SQL Database- Mckoi SQL Database is a complete SQL management system written entirely in Java. It can operate
as a multi-threaded multi-user database server or embedded in a Java application. Released under
the GPL open source license. - Supplier: Diehl & Associates, Inc.
- Contact: toby@mckoi.com
Metakit (March 2003)- Open source C++ class library for persistent structured data.
- Supplier: Equi4 Software
- License terms: see here
Mnemona (6-Feb-2005)- Mnemona is a very simple and quite general scheme for
managing object-based information. It is designed to
overcome limitations of the relational model and to strike a
balance between unstructured object databases and the overly
restrictive structure of the RDBMS. It is written entirely
in Java. - Supplier: Northbranchlogic
- Contact: Barnet Wagman, bw@northbranchlogic.com
- License terms: free for non-commercial users
MySQL- Popular Open Source SQL database system.
- Supplier: MySQL
- License terms: see here
ObjectDB for Java (15-Apr-2003)- ObjectDB is a powerful yet compact Object Database Management System
(ODBMS), written entirely in Java, and compliant with the new Java Data
Objects (JDO) standard developed by Sun (JSR12). ObjectDB is designed to
handle efficiently databases of various sizes, ranged from a few KBs to
hundreds of GBs. - Supplier: ObjectDB Software
- Contact: support@objectdb.com
- License terms: see here
OCELOT SQL- An SQL DBMS distributed under Mozilla/GPL licence. Includes SQL engine, ODBC interface, front
end, samples and documentation and complete source code. - Supplier: Ocelot Computer Services Inc.
- Contact: help@ocelot.ca
OpenAdmin Tool for Informix (2012)- OpenAdmin Tool (OAT)) is a PHP-based, web browser administration tool for
managing one or more IBM Informix database servers. OAT provides the
ability to monitor and administer multiple Informix database server
instances from a single location. - Supplier: IBM
- Contact: Informix team, askifmx@us.ibm.com
- License terms: A link to the license terms is provided prior to the software package download
Orient ODBMS- A light object server that is ODMG 3.0 compliant. Beta version is free for non-commercial use (see
license terms). - Supplier: Orient Technologies
- Contact: staff@orientechnologies.com
- License terms: see here
PicoSQL- Open-source SQL database system originally derived from a commercial product.
- Supplier: Picosoft
- Contact: picosoft@picosoft.it
- License terms: see here
SAP DB (6-Mar-2003)- SQL-based DBMS from SAP with object-oriented extensions distributed under GNU General
Public Licence (kernel) and GNU Lesser General Public License (client, programming interface). - Supplier: SAP
- License terms: GPL/LGPL
SQLite- Free, open-source, embeddable SQL database engine in a C library.
- Supplier: Hwaci – Applied Software Research
- Contact: D. Richard Hipp, drh@hwaci.com
- License terms: public domain
- Suneido (25-Jan-2003)
- Suneido is an integrated application platform that
includes a client-server relational database. The database uses a
straightforward relational algebra query language rather than SQL. It
uses multi-version, optimistic, timestamp-based concurrency, providing
full transaction isolation. - Supplier: Suneido Software Corp.
- Contact: Andrew McKinlay, mckinlay@axonsoft.com
- License terms: GPL
ThinkSQL- Relational database server aiming at full ISO SQL compatibility. Beta version is free for download.
- Supplier: ThinkSQL Ltd.
- Contact: beta@thinksql.co.uk
WinSQL Lite- A user interface for SQL-based DBMSs that connects via ODBC to any kind of target database
server. Lite version is free of charge. This tool is meant for database administrators. - Supplier: IndusSoft Technologies
XDb- Object-oriented database for Windows and PocketPC. ActiveX DLL interface compatible with VB, C, Delphi, ASP.
- Supplier: Custom Microsystems, Inc.
- Contact: support@xdb1.com
- License terms: see here
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