SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Database software and usage

Other DB sites:

• Linux Databases  At linas.org
• Linux Databases  By C.Browne
• Freshmeat: Database
• Freshmeat: Database (X11)
• Freshmeat: Database  Daemons

Misc Documents, Info:

• Roll your own DBMS?!?  Dec'97 LG
• UnixWorld Tutorial on SQL + PHP  [precise link broke]
• WWW mSQL HOWTO How to set up a web server database with mSQL.
• Apache + MySQL + PHP Mini-HOWTO  A setup to support web apps.
• Ask Slashdot: Open Source Program Databases
• Ask Slashdot: Graphical RDBMS tool for Linux?
• FreeTDS  "implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) database client access protocol and related libraries used by Sybase and Microsoft. FreeTDS supports versions 4.2, 4.6, and 5.0 of the protocol, and it supports DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC libraries."
• ODBC:
  • Also search the rest of this page.
  • LinuxODBC  A project to bring M$ODBC to KDE.
  • The FreeODBC Pages  Various no-cost ODBC SW.
  • ODBC SDK  $ & free versions; From Dharma Systems, Inc.
  • Easysoft Ltd.'s "ODBC-ODBC Bridge"  $ & demo; "a package of libraries which provide applications on Linux with access to ODBC data sources on remote machines"

Specific Databases or DB companies:

• ADABAS D
• ADSM - ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager  DBMS for multimedia data.
• Ardent Software, Inc.  $; database SW; has a OODBMS product for Linux.
• CDB - Constant Data Base format  Simple, but very fast for static data.
• Database Systems Laboratory, Univ of Massachusetts
• dbMetrix "SQL database tool" (GUI)
• DBMS MIMER  Free. Offers paid support.
• docfs Unified Documentation Storage and Retrieval for Linux Systems.
• Emacs  Add-ins have some fairly simple database capabilities, eg, "notes-mode" & "forms-mode".
• Empress Software, Inc.  Database software; "The Embedded System Database".
• Gaby:
  • home page  new home
  • Linux Gazette review  Dec'98 LG
• Gadfly (RDBMS with large-subset SQL interface; free-for-all software)
• GOODS - Generic Object Oriented Database System
• IBM:
  • DB2 Universal Database
• Infoflex, Inc. ($; has several database-related pruducts; some for Linux)
• Informix:
  • Informix on Linux FAQ
  • Intraware "Intranet software, services, and information" (had Informix SE for download)
• Ingres II (Computer & Associates' Information Management (RDBMS); free version of DB & SDK for Linux)
• Interbase for Linux  A good, embedable RDBMS. There's a Japanese version.
• Kibble  "knowledge base program. It is used to organize seemingly discursive thoughts into a cohesive engine"
• LEAP RDBMS  Has been used in DB courses.
• LINCKS (OODBMS research multi-user database system associated with Olaf Kirsh)
• MOT  "can be used to create web-based databases without writing a single line of code (sql, php, or html!)"
• MPSQL (tool similar to Oracle's Server Manager motif worksheet and M$-Windows-based SQL Server iSQL query)
• MsqlJava Home Page
• MySQL (by T.c.X. DataKonsultAB)
• noSQL (tar file)  "simple RDBMS"
• O2 - ODMG-compliant object database  $; from Ardent Software, Inc.
• Objectivity, Inc.   $; Object database software.
• Oracle:
  • Oracle (home page)
  • Oracle HOWTO How to setup Oracle as a database server.
  • Mailing list signup: Send a message to oracle-on-linux-subscribe@egroups.com or use this or this.
    
  • Ask Slashdot: Getting Oracle 8 to work on Linux
  • DCOracle  "Python extension module"
  • Oracle 8 installation HOWTO 
  • chcsv and csvload  "simple and convenient Oracle tools to exchange data between Oracle table and text-files (CSV format)"
  • HOWTO install Oracle on Red Hat
• POST++ - Persistent Object Storage for C++
• PostgreSQL:
  • PostgreSQL Home Page
  • PostgreSQL HOWTO How to setup PostgreSQL as a database server.
  • PostgreSQL RPMs 
  • PgAccess - a Tcl/Tk PostgreSQL interface
  • A Postgress page 
  • WIDD mini-HOWTO  WIDD is a front-end for sql3/sql92 databases.
• QDDB ($; Database software)
• Raima Database Manager++ & Velocis Database Server, review  Dec'97 LJ
• SITEFORUM  $; "import and export your existing data, stored in any JDBC-/ODBC-compatible database into another JDBC-/ODBC-compatible database."
• Solidtech Free Linux database
• SQL:
  • SQL viewer (free) at Mutiny Bay Software
  • White River SW (SQL SW project)
• Sybase:
  • Sybase ($; has a no-cost Linux product, Adaptive Server Enterprise)
  • SQL Server and Linux: No Ancient Heavenly Connections, But...  Jun'97 LG
  • SQSH  "makes it easy to send SQL statements to the server"
• Xbase:
  • xbase   "a set of C++ classes for utilizing and manipulating xBase files. There is also a HTML interface for working with these files on the web."
  • Using the Xbase DBMS in a Linux Environment  Oct'98 LG

Middleware:

• Meaning: Software that sits between an application ("frontend") and a database ("backend").
• HIE  $ ?
• Magic Software Enterprises, Ltd.  $; "application development technology"; with support for Informix and Oracle.
• OpenLink Software, Inc.   $; database middle-ware, ODBC
• SAS Home Page (some kind of web & database SW & other SW)
• Tibco  $ Product is TIB/Rendezvous.
• Tecco  $ ?
• Vertex Industries, Inc.  $; Middleware.
• Ask Slashdot: Middleware and Transaction Processing

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