Relational Databases

Tabular or relational databases are those that can be organized in tables.

In opposition to tabular or relational databases there is NoSQL databases.

List of Relational Databases

List of relational databases:

  • PostgreSQL
  • MariaDB
  • MySQL
  • SQLite

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is free and open source (FOSS), under a Postgres License.

Is developed by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.

Official website

Code repository

MariaDB

MariaDB is a free and open source software (FOSS), under a GPLv2 license.

It is a community-based project that was forked from MySQL when it was acquired by Oracle.

Official website

MySQL

MySQL is currently owned and developed by American company Oracle. MySQL was originally developed by Swedish company SQL AB, that was acquired by Sun Microsystems, that was acquired by Oracle.

MySQL Community is free and open source (FOSS), under a GPL license.

MySQL Enterprise is proprietary.

SQLite

SQLite is written in C.

It is public domain, so it is considered free and open source (FOSS).

Official website

CockroachDB

CockroachDB is a commercial database.

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