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YDB

Entrust YDB with keeping your application state regardless of how large or frequently modified it is. Handling petabytes of data and millions of transactions per second is not an issue. Build analytical reports based on data you store in YDB with performance comparable to database management systems purpose-built for this use case. No compromises on consistency and availability are necessary. Use the YDB topics feature to reliably send data between your applications or consume change data capture feed from regular tables. Exactly-once and at-least-once semantics are available to choose from. YDB is designed to work in three availability zones, ensuring availability even if the whole availability zone goes offline. It recovers automatically after a disk, server, or data center failure with minimum latency disruptions for applications.

Starting Price: Free

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Kal Admin

Kalrom Systems

There are different ways to cut IT department costs, but the most intelligent and profound way is by increasing employee productivity. Once you implement efficient work methods you pave the way for continuous saving and improvement. Kal Admin is an indispensable software for hundreds of Analysts, Developers, QAs and DBAs in the public service in Israel. Kal Admin's Data Dictionary is a repository where Business Analysts store definitions and descriptions of data elements required to satisfy end user requirement. Business terminology can be stored in the Dictionary as well. The Dictionary is used later for building tables in the database. Using Kal Admin, tables can be defined without actually building them in the database. Columns in the table are defined using the Data Dictionary. Once the defined tables pass quality assurance you can build them in the database with a click.

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Firebird

Firebird Foundation

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard 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. The Firebird Project 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) on 25 July, 2000. The Firebird Project supplies users, developers, and administrators with various kinds of documentation, from Quick Start guides to expert-level articles devoted to various aspects of Firebird.

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Quest Database Management

Quest Software

Quest Database Management Solutions. Today’s database technology is becoming increasingly complex, and supports previously unthinkable data volumes – all driven by the demands of today’s always-on economy. This drives most organizations to spend up to 65% of their time just keeping the lights on, leaving very little time to deliver innovations that move the business forward. Digital transformation initiatives such as cloud migration, DevOps, open-source database adoption and data privacy require commitment and time from IT at a time when they are already under huge pressure to maintain service levels. It’s time for a new approach. Spend less time managing your data environment, and more time building a data-driven business. As the top-ranked ISV for database management software tools in the world, we help you simplify this complex technology in order to manage, monitor and move your data across a wide variety of on-premises and cloud-based systems.

Starting Price: $625.00/one-time/user

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Adminer

Replace phpMyAdmin with Adminer and you will get a tidier user interface, better support for MySQL features, higher performance and more security. Security is #1 priority in development of Adminer. Adminer does not allow connecting to databases without a password and it rate-limits the connection attempts to protect against brute-force attacks. Still, consider making Adminer inaccessible to public by whitelisting IP addresses allowed to connect to it, password-protecting the access in your web server, enabling security plugins (e.g. to require an OTP) or by customizing the login method. You can also delete Adminer if not needed anymore, it is just one file which is easy to upload in the future. Adminer had some security bugs in the past so update whenever Adminer tells you there is a new version available (ask your administrator if you could not update yourself). Connect to a database server with username and password. /Select an existing database or create a new one.

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CUBRID

CUBRID is a relational DBMS optimized for online transaction processing (OLTP) that complies with ANSI SQL standards and provides MVCC support, High-Availability (HA) capabilities, and GUI-based tools for DB management/migration. It also provides Oracle/MySQL compatibility and supports a variety of interfaces, including JDBC. CUBRID provides ease of installation and native GUI-based administration tools for developers' convenience. Multi-threaded, multi-server architecture, native broker middleware, cost-based optimizer, and intensive caching techniques for your OLTP services. Very accurate predictable automatic fail-over built-in technology, based on the CUBRID Heartbeat native engine core. Multi-volume support, automatic volume expansion, and unlimited number and size of databases/ tables/indexes.

Starting Price: $0.01/one-time/user

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InterSystems Caché

InterSystems

InterSystems Caché® is a high-performance database that powers transaction processing applications around the world. It is used for everything from mapping a billion stars in the Milky Way, to processing a billion equity trades in a day, to managing smart energy grids. Caché is a multi-model (object, relational, key-value) DBMS and application server developed by InterSystems. InterSystems Caché provides several APIs to operate with same data simultaneously: key-value, relational, object, document, multi-dimensional. Data can be managed via SQL, Java, node.js, .NET, C++, Python. Caché also provides an application server which hosts web apps (CSP), REST, SOAP, web sockets and other types of TCP access for Caché data.

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AutosyncDB

DreamTeam

AutosyncDB is a comprehensive solution for comparing and synchronizing SQL Server database schemas along with predefined data. The idea is to automate the database update for each new version of an application using its new database as a source of sample schema and predefined application data. In a few clicks AutosyncDB allows you to reveal the differences between database objects, analyze them, build your own customized synchronization script and deploy it. In addition, using the integration support you can run such a task for multiple databases on your servers, or export it as a package to provide client-side updates.

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DittoBitto

DittoBitto is a clever, easy to use, yet powerful multi-user relational database management system. DittoBitto is based on the *Microsoft’s Access database format but doesn’t require all the virtual basic coding. It’s small in size yet very powerful. Great for creating any of your database needs and you can network it too. DittoBitto has over 13,000 downloads off of download.com. There are advantages to keeping your database in-house and off the cloud. They claim your valuable data is safe stored on some server in some warehouse. But clever people are finding clever ways to hack these sites. Plus if you loose internet connection, you loose access to your data. If your online database provider goes out of business, who knows what happens to your data and you have to start over. An advanced unlimited number of Forms feature. Forms are the working screens for the input and retrieval of data.

Starting Price: $30 one-time payment

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SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)

Microsoft

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) transforms database development by introducing a ubiquitous, declarative model that spans all the phases of database development inside Visual Studio. You can use SSDT Transact-SQL design capabilities to build, debug, maintain, and refactor databases. You can work with a database project, or directly with a connected database instance on or off-premise. Developers can use familiar Visual Studio tools for database development. Tools such as: code navigation, IntelliSense, language support that parallels what is available for C# and Visual Basic, platform-specific validation, debugging, and declarative editing in the Transact-SQL editor. SSDT also provides a visual Table Designer for creating and editing tables in either database projects or connected database instances. While you are working on your database projects in a team-based environment, you can use version control for all the files.

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SQLyog

Webyog

A Powerful MySQL Development and Administration Solution. SQLyog Ultimate enables database developers, administrators, and architects to visually compare, optimize, and document schemas. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to automate and schedule the synchronization of data between two MySQL hosts. Create the job definition file using the interactive wizard. The tool does not require any installation on the MySQL hosts. You can use any host to run the tool. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to interactively synchronize data. Run the tool in attended mode to compare data from source and target before taking action. Using the intuitive display, compare data on source and target for every row to decide whether it should be synchronized in which direction. SQLyog Ultimate includes a power tool to interactively compare and synchronize schema. View the differences between tables, indexes, columns, and routines of two databases.

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SAP HANA

SAP

SAP HANA in-memory database is for transactional and analytical workloads with any data type — on a single data copy. It breaks down the transactional and analytical silos in organizations, for quick decision-making, on premise and in the cloud. Innovate without boundaries on a database management system, where you can develop intelligent and live solutions for quick decision-making on a single data copy. And with advanced analytics, you can support next-generation transactional processing. Build data solutions with cloud-native scalability, speed, and performance. With the SAP HANA Cloud database, you can gain trusted, business-ready information from a single solution, while enabling security, privacy, and anonymization with proven enterprise reliability. An intelligent enterprise runs on insight from data – and more than ever, this insight must be delivered in real time.

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Nucleon Database Master

Nucleon Software

Nucleon Database Master is a modern, powerful, intuitive and easy to use database query, administration, and management software with a consistent and modern user interface. Database Master simplifies managing, monitoring, querying, editing, visualizing, designing relational and NoSQL DBMS. Database Master allows you to execute extended SQL, JQL and C# (Linq) query scripts, provides all database objects such as tables, views, procedures, packages, columns, indexes, relationships (constraints), collections, triggers and other database objects.

Starting Price: $99 one-time payment

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Dr. DeeBee

Syware

Need to connect your proprietary database to the world's most popular database tools, such as Access, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, or Crystal Reports? It's easy with the Dr. DeeBee® ODBC Driver Kit! The Dr. DeeBee ODBC Driver Kit allows you to create ODBC database drivers quickly and easily. This ODBC tool allows you to ODBC enable your database, adding database connectivity to any proprietary database without needing to learn all the intricacies of ODBC. The Dr. DeeBee ODBC Driver Kit contains the complete source code for a fully functional ODBC driver that you can modify and distribute royalty-free. All you have to do is implement calls like OpenTable, NextRecord, GetData, and PutData, then recompile the driver. It's that simple! The Network Edition contains the complete source code for a fully functional "network enabled", full featured, Level 2 (most), ODBC 3.0 driver that you can modify and distribute royalty-free.

Starting Price: $9000

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Matisse

Matisse Software

A Post-Relational Database, like Matisse, represents the best of both worlds: The ability to map objects from .NET directly into the database with the support of a standard query language (SQL) and the same scalable enterprise capabilities as found in relational products. The SQL Standard, which has been constrained for the past 30 years to query and manipulate relational tables, has now been morphed by Matisse Software into a powerful language to operate on a hierarchy of classes. Object development has created the need for a DBMS that provides native object and XML support, and yet offers the benefits that have been delivered by relational database: SQL, scalability and standard compliance. Hurwitz Group believes that for many solutions in many organizations, Matisse will pay off in terms of shorter time-to-market in the near-term due to shorter database design cycles, and lower TCO over the long-term due to lower costs required for database maintenance and performance tuning.

Starting Price: $245 per month

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QuasarDB

Quasar's brain is QuasarDB, a high-performance, distributed, column-oriented timeseries database management system designed from the ground up to deliver real-time on petascale use cases. Up to 20X less disk usage. Quasardb ingestion and compression capabilities are unmatched. Up to 10,000X faster feature extraction. QuasarDB can extract features in real-time from the raw data, thanks to the combination of a built-in map/reduce query engine, an aggregation engine that leverages SIMD from modern CPUs, and stochastic indexes that use virtually no disk space. The most cost-effective timeseries solution, thanks to its ultra-efficient resource usage, the capability to leverage object storage (S3), unique compression technology, and fair pricing model. Quasar runs everywhere, from 32-bit ARM devices to high-end Intel servers, from Edge Computing to the cloud or on-premises.

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Inmagic DB/TextWorks

Lucidea

Inmagic DB/TextWorks combines a database management system with powerful search capabilities, and can be customized and managed by non-IT staff to organize information and share knowledge throughout an organization. Inmagic® DB/TextWorks® is a special combination of database and text retrieval software that enables you to build “textbases” (text / multi-media databases) to manage diverse types of information including bibliographic catalogs, documents, images, multimedia, etc. DB/TextWorks runs on Windows Operating systems and can be used on a single PC or in a networked environment. DB/TextWorks texbases can be made web accessible via DB/Text WebPublisher PRO. DB/TextWorks combines a database management system and a text retrieval system. It’s easy to use and does not require any programming. This combination delivers a powerful, flexible system that can be used by non-IT staff to organize information and share knowledge throughout an organization.

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MySQL Workbench

Oracle

MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more. MySQL Workbench is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, model, generate, and manage databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, forward and reverse engineering, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort. MySQL Workbench delivers visual tools for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL queries. The SQL Editor provides color syntax highlighting, auto-complete, reuse of SQL snippets, and execution history of SQL. The Database Connections Panel enables developers to easily manage standard database connections.

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RRDtool

RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. RRDtool can be easily integrated in shell scripts, perl, python, ruby, lua or tcl applications.

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Azure Data Studio

Microsoft

Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals who use on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Azure Data Studio offers a modern editor experience with IntelliSense, code snippets, source control integration, and an integrated terminal. It's engineered with the data platform user in mind, with the built-in charting of query result sets and customizable dashboards. Use Azure Data Studio to query, design, and manage your databases and data warehouses wherever they are, on your local computer or in the cloud. We recommend the user installer, which simplifies installations and updates and doesn't require Administrator privileges.

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DBIntegrate

Transoft

The latest version of DBIntegrate is now available for download; V.3.0.3.7. This release includes enhancements to CDC, and new features for data de-duplication to help make it easier for users to identify matches. CDC can now also write to a flat-text file on disconnection from the message queue, this file is then read back in to the message queue when it is next available prior to any new messages, this ensures that messages are still sent to the target data source in sequence. The Flat-text file option can also be used as the default CDC option, such as to allow overnight batch file imports into another system. A log loader mechanism is installed alongside this latest release which enables the files to be loaded via the command line utility. DBIntegrate can now write de-duplication merge scores to the DBI_WORK temporary tables. The record that is the master record can also be displayed under a DBI_RecordMerged column.

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HanDbase

DDH Software

HanDBase is a light and fast relational database manager for mobile devices which offers data entry, searching, sorting, filtering, printing and synchronization across a wide variety of desktop computers, tablets, handheld computing devices and smartphones. With HanDBase you can keep track of almost anything. Create your own custom data based applications in minutes using HanDBase and begin tracking whatever important information you need to be more productive while on the go. HanDBase is available as a separate product for many different devices and Operating Systems. Cross-platform technology makes it possible to seamlessly share database files & records with different types of devices. Forms Designer is available for some versions. Create completely custom interfaces for your records. Multi-user Syncing technology merges two or more users data into a single database / table.

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Suneido

Suneido Software

Suneido™ is a complete, integrated application platform – a system for developing and deploying applications without the frustrations of integrating multiple different products. Suneido incorporates an object-oriented programming language, client-server relational database software, and application frameworks and components. It includes the integrated development environment (IDE) used to create applications as well as the client and server required to run applications across networks. Suneido is Open Source – it is provided free, with complete source code. Our mission is to provide a simple, open, lightweight, industrial strength alternative to large, complex, expensive, closed application technologies such as Visual Basic, Access, FoxPro, Delphi, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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H2

Welcome to H2, the Java SQL database. In embedded mode, an application opens a database from within the same JVM using JDBC. This is the fastest and easiest connection mode. The disadvantage is that a database may only be open in one virtual machine (and class loader) at any time. As in all modes, both persistent and in-memory databases are supported. There is no limit on the number of database open concurrently, or on the number of open connections. The mixed mode is a combination of the embedded and the server mode. The first application that connects to a database does that in embedded mode, but also starts a server so that other applications (running in different processes or virtual machines) can concurrently access the same data. The local connections are as fast as if the database is used in just the embedded mode, while the remote connections are a bit slower.

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Empress RDBMS

Empress Software

Empress Embedded Database engine is the heartbeat of EMPRESS RDBMS, a relational database management system specializing in embedded database technology – from car navigation systems to mission critical military command and control, from Internet routers to complex medical systems, EMPRESS beats steadily, 24/7 at the core of embedded systems applications everywhere. Empress kernel level mr API is a unique feature of Empress that gives users access to the Embedded Database kernel libraries. This Empress API provides the fastest means of accessing Empress databases. MR Routines give the developer maximum control over time and space in developing real-time embedded database applications. Empress ODBC and JDBC APIs applications to access Empress databases in both standalone and client/server mode. Empress ODBC and JDBC APIs enable many 3rd party ODBC and JDBC capable software packages to access a local Empress database or via Empress Connectivity Server.

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RazorSQL

RazorSQL is an SQL query tool, database browser, SQL editor, and database administration tool for Windows, macOS, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris. RazorSQL has been tested on over 40 databases, can connect to databases via either JDBC or ODBC. Browse database objects such as schemas, tables, columns, primary and foreign keys, views, indexes, procedures, functions, and more. Visual tools to create, alter, describe, execute, and drop database objects such as tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and more. Includes multi-tabular display of queries with options for filtering, sorting, searching, and much more. Import data from various formats such as delimited files, Excel spreadsheets, and fixed-width files. Includes a robust relational database (HSQLDB) that is up and running with no manual configuration out of the box.

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Starting Price: $99.95 one-time payment

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