Database Software Comparison
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of relational database management systems. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs.
General information
Maintainer First public release date Latest stable version Latest release date Software license
4D (4th Dimension) 4D s.a.s 1984 v12.2 SQL 1999 Proprietary
ADABAS Software AG 1970 8.1 Proprietary
Adaptive Server Enterprise Sybase 1987 15.7 Proprietary
Advantage Database Server (ADS) Sybase 1992 11.0 2012 Proprietary
Altibase Altibase Corp.[1] 2000 6.1.1 2012-04-01 Proprietary
Apache Derby Apache 2004 10.8.2.2 2011-10-24 Apache License
CUBRID NHN Corporation[2] 2008-11 8.4.1 2012-02-24 GPL v2
Datacom CA, Inc. ? 11.2 Proprietary
DB2 IBM 1983 10.1 2012-04-30 Proprietary
Drizzle Brian Aker 2008 Build 1126 BSD, GPL v2
Empress Embedded Database Empress Software Inc[3] 1979 10.20 2010-03 Proprietary
FileMaker FileMaker[4] 1984 12.0 2012-04-12 Proprietary
Firebird Firebird project[5] 2000-07-25 2.5.1 2011-10-04 IPL[6] and IDPL[7]
HSQLDB HSQL Development Group 2001 2.2.6[8] 2011-11-20 BSD
H2 H2 Software 2005 1.3.160 2011-09-11 EPL and modified MPL
Informix Dynamic Server IBM 1980 11.70.xC5 2012-05-26 Proprietary
Ingres Ingres Corp. 1974 Ingres Database 10 2010-10-12 GPL and Proprietary
InterBase Embarcadero 1984 InterBase XE 2010-09-21 Proprietary
Linter SQL RDBMS RELEX Group 1990 6.x Proprietary
LucidDB The Eigenbase Project[9] 2007-01 0.9.3 GPL v2
MariaDB MariaDB Community 2010-02-01 5.5.23[10] 2012-04-11 GPL v2
MaxDB SAP AG 2003-05 7.6 2008-01 Proprietary
Microsoft Access (JET) Microsoft 1992 14 (2010) Proprietary
Microsoft Visual Foxpro Microsoft 1984[11] 9 (2005) 2007-10-11[11] Proprietary
Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft 1989 2012 (v11) Proprietary
Microsoft SQL Server Compact (Embedded Database) Microsoft 2000 2010 (v3.5 SP2) Proprietary
MonetDB/SQL The MonetDB Developer Team 2004 11.9.1 2012-04 MonetDB Public License v1.1[12]
mSQL Hughes Technologies 1994 3.9[13] 2011-02 Proprietary
MySQL Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) 1995-11 5.5.17 2011-10-21 GPL or Proprietary
Nexusdb Nexus Database Systems Pty Ltd[14] 2003-09 3.04 2010-05-08 Proprietary
HP NonStop SQL Hewlett-Packard 1987 SQL/MX 2.3 Proprietary
Omnis Studio TigerLogic Inc[15] 1982-07 4.3.1 Release 1no 2008-05 Proprietary
OpenBase SQL OpenBase International[16] 1991 11.0.0 Proprietary
OpenEdge Progress Software Corporation 1984 11.0 Proprietary
OpenLink Virtuoso OpenLink Software[17] 1998 6.x 2011-11 GPL or Proprietary
Oracle Oracle Corporation 1979-11 11g Release 2 2009-09 Proprietary
Oracle Rdb Oracle Corporation 1984 7.2.5.0 2011-06-20[18] Proprietary
Paradox Corel Corporation[19] 1985 11 2003 Proprietary
Pervasive PSQL Pervasive Software 1982 11 2011-07 Proprietary
Polyhedra DBMS ENEA AB 1993 8.5 2011-06 Proprietary
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Global Development Group[20] 1989-06 9.2.0[21] 2012-09-10 PostgreSQL Licence (a liberal Open Source license)[22]
R:Base R:BASE Technologies[23] 1982 7.6 Proprietary
RDM Embedded Raima Inc.[24] 1984 10.1 2011-08-31 Proprietary
RDM Server Raima Inc.[25] 1993 8.3 Proprietary
ScimoreDB Scimore[26] 2005 3.0 2008-03-03 Proprietary
SmallSQL SmallSQL 2005-04-16 0.20 2008-12 LGPL
SQL Anywhere Sybase 1992 12.0 2010-07-09 Proprietary
SQLBase Unify Corp.[27] 1982 11.5 2008-11 Proprietary
SQLite D. Richard Hipp 2000-08-17 3.7.13 2012-06-11[28] Public domain
Superbase Superbase 1984 Scientific (2004) Proprietary
Teradata Teradata 1984 13.10 Proprietary
UniData Rocket Software 1988 7.2.12 2011-10 Proprietary
Xeround Cloud Database Xeround Systems 2010 3.1 2011-10-11 Saa
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of relational database management systems. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs.
General information
Maintainer First public release date Latest stable version Latest release date Software license
4D (4th Dimension) 4D s.a.s 1984 v12.2 SQL 1999 Proprietary
ADABAS Software AG 1970 8.1 Proprietary
Adaptive Server Enterprise Sybase 1987 15.7 Proprietary
Advantage Database Server (ADS) Sybase 1992 11.0 2012 Proprietary
Altibase Altibase Corp.[1] 2000 6.1.1 2012-04-01 Proprietary
Apache Derby Apache 2004 10.8.2.2 2011-10-24 Apache License
CUBRID NHN Corporation[2] 2008-11 8.4.1 2012-02-24 GPL v2
Datacom CA, Inc. ? 11.2 Proprietary
DB2 IBM 1983 10.1 2012-04-30 Proprietary
Drizzle Brian Aker 2008 Build 1126 BSD, GPL v2
Empress Embedded Database Empress Software Inc[3] 1979 10.20 2010-03 Proprietary
FileMaker FileMaker[4] 1984 12.0 2012-04-12 Proprietary
Firebird Firebird project[5] 2000-07-25 2.5.1 2011-10-04 IPL[6] and IDPL[7]
HSQLDB HSQL Development Group 2001 2.2.6[8] 2011-11-20 BSD
H2 H2 Software 2005 1.3.160 2011-09-11 EPL and modified MPL
Informix Dynamic Server IBM 1980 11.70.xC5 2012-05-26 Proprietary
Ingres Ingres Corp. 1974 Ingres Database 10 2010-10-12 GPL and Proprietary
InterBase Embarcadero 1984 InterBase XE 2010-09-21 Proprietary
Linter SQL RDBMS RELEX Group 1990 6.x Proprietary
LucidDB The Eigenbase Project[9] 2007-01 0.9.3 GPL v2
MariaDB MariaDB Community 2010-02-01 5.5.23[10] 2012-04-11 GPL v2
MaxDB SAP AG 2003-05 7.6 2008-01 Proprietary
Microsoft Access (JET) Microsoft 1992 14 (2010) Proprietary
Microsoft Visual Foxpro Microsoft 1984[11] 9 (2005) 2007-10-11[11] Proprietary
Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft 1989 2012 (v11) Proprietary
Microsoft SQL Server Compact (Embedded Database) Microsoft 2000 2010 (v3.5 SP2) Proprietary
MonetDB/SQL The MonetDB Developer Team 2004 11.9.1 2012-04 MonetDB Public License v1.1[12]
mSQL Hughes Technologies 1994 3.9[13] 2011-02 Proprietary
MySQL Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) 1995-11 5.5.17 2011-10-21 GPL or Proprietary
Nexusdb Nexus Database Systems Pty Ltd[14] 2003-09 3.04 2010-05-08 Proprietary
HP NonStop SQL Hewlett-Packard 1987 SQL/MX 2.3 Proprietary
Omnis Studio TigerLogic Inc[15] 1982-07 4.3.1 Release 1no 2008-05 Proprietary
OpenBase SQL OpenBase International[16] 1991 11.0.0 Proprietary
OpenEdge Progress Software Corporation 1984 11.0 Proprietary
OpenLink Virtuoso OpenLink Software[17] 1998 6.x 2011-11 GPL or Proprietary
Oracle Oracle Corporation 1979-11 11g Release 2 2009-09 Proprietary
Oracle Rdb Oracle Corporation 1984 7.2.5.0 2011-06-20[18] Proprietary
Paradox Corel Corporation[19] 1985 11 2003 Proprietary
Pervasive PSQL Pervasive Software 1982 11 2011-07 Proprietary
Polyhedra DBMS ENEA AB 1993 8.5 2011-06 Proprietary
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Global Development Group[20] 1989-06 9.2.0[21] 2012-09-10 PostgreSQL Licence (a liberal Open Source license)[22]
R:Base R:BASE Technologies[23] 1982 7.6 Proprietary
RDM Embedded Raima Inc.[24] 1984 10.1 2011-08-31 Proprietary
RDM Server Raima Inc.[25] 1993 8.3 Proprietary
ScimoreDB Scimore[26] 2005 3.0 2008-03-03 Proprietary
SmallSQL SmallSQL 2005-04-16 0.20 2008-12 LGPL
SQL Anywhere Sybase 1992 12.0 2010-07-09 Proprietary
SQLBase Unify Corp.[27] 1982 11.5 2008-11 Proprietary
SQLite D. Richard Hipp 2000-08-17 3.7.13 2012-06-11[28] Public domain
Superbase Superbase 1984 Scientific (2004) Proprietary
Teradata Teradata 1984 13.10 Proprietary
UniData Rocket Software 1988 7.2.12 2011-10 Proprietary
Xeround Cloud Database Xeround Systems 2010 3.1 2011-10-11 Saa
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