Publicly Available Database Software from Nonprofit Organizations

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AceDB

A genome database system designed specifically for handling bioinformatic data flexibly. It includes tools designed to manipulate genomic data, but is increasingly also used for non-biological data.

Supplier: Sanger Institute

License terms: see here

 

Aditi

Disk-based deductive DBMS with focus on performance by use of conventional relational technology whenever possible.

Supplier: Aditi Group, University of Melbourne Contact: aditi -at- cs.mu.oz.au

License terms: see here

 

AMOS-II

An extensible, main-memory, Object-Oriented (OO), and distributed multi-database system.

Supplier: University of Uppsala

License terms: see here

 

ASES

Approximate Search Engines for Structure, software for approximate searching for patterns in tree (e.g. XML, hierarchies) and graph (e.g. chemical) data. i In addition, some software for data mining and clustering.

Supplier:New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science

Contact: Jason Tsong-Li Wang, wangj -at- njit.edu

 

BKD

Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer, a program designed to extract Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) from (possibly incomplete) databases.

Supplier: Open University

 

BIM Standard Edition

Free DBMS by Matthew Farhat that organizes text and arithmetic equations; includes organizational user specified template hierarchy, GUI, cross-table spreadsheets, search engine, documentation, and internet sockets.

Supplier: Matthew Farhat

Contact: Matthew Farhat, matthewfarhat -at- charter.net

 

CLUTO (Aug-2002)

A software toolkit for clustering low- and high-dimensional data sets and cluster visualization. It is well-suited for clustering data sets arising in many areas including information retrieval, customer purchasing transactions, science, and biology.

Supplier: University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Contact: George Karypis, karypis -at- cs.umn.edu

 

ConceptBase (20-Jul-2009)

A multi-user meta data repository system with a graphical user interface that allows to engineer customized modeling environments via its logic-based meta-modeling capabilities.

Supplier: ConceptBase Team

Contact: cb -at- i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de, jeusfeld -at- uvt.nl

License terms: FreeBSD-style

 

Coral (26-Nov-1997)

Coral is a deductive system which supports a rich declarative language, and an interface to C++ which allows for a combination of declaritive and imperative programming.

Supplier: University of Wisconsin, CS department

Contact: Kent Wenger, wenger -at- cs.wisc.edu

 

Datalog++

Deductive and object-oriented database system.

Supplier: Mississippi State University

 

DB-MAIN (Nov-2002)

A Windows CASE tool supporting most DB engineering processes. Supports most current conceptual and physical models.

Supplier: University of Namur

Contact: Jean-Luc Hainaut, jlh -at- info.fundp.ac.be

 

Dee (31-Mar-2007)

An implementation of a truly relational language using Python. Inspired by The Third Manifesto, by Chris Date and Hugh Darwen, we address the problem of the impedance mismatch between programming languages and databases, and avoid the weakness and syntactic awkwardness of SQL.

Supplier: Greg Gaughan

Contact: Greg Gaughan, acmfeedback -at- quicksort.co.uk

License terms: GPL

 

DES (2005)

The Datalog Educational System (DES) is a free Prolog-based implementation of a basic deductive database with stratified negation which uses Datalog as a query language.

Contact: Fernando Sáenz, fernan -at- sip.ucm.es

License terms: GPL

 

Emdros (17-Mar-2003)

Emdros is a text database engine for analyzed or annotated text. The canonical usage of Emdros is linguistic databases, but other domains may also benefit. Its query language supports query/create/update/delete operations, and the query-part is especially powerful. Query-primitives include consecutivity, embedding, gapping, and logical expressions on object attributes.

Supplier: Emdros community

Contact: Ulrik Petersen, emdros -at- yahoo.dk

License terms: GPL

 

Firebird (10-Feb-2003)

Open source relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features. Runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms.

Supplier:Firebird Project Team

 

FLORA-2 (2002)

A declarative object-oriented knowledge base language and application development platform, which supports a unified language of F-logic, HiLog, and Transaction Logic. Applications of FLORA-2 include intelligent agents, Semantic Web, ontology management, and integration of information.

Supplier: FLORA-2 Team

Contact: flora-users -at- lists.sourceforge.net, flora-development -at- lists.sourceforge.net

License terms: LGPL

 

FLORID

FLORID (F-LOgic Reasoning In Databases) is a deductive object-oriented database system employing F-Logic as data definition and query language.

Supplier: University of Freiburg

Contact: Florid Team, florid -at- informatik.uni-freiburg.de

 

GiST

The Generalized Search Tree (GiST) software allows researchers to quickly develop and experiment with indexing schemes for new data types.

Supplier: University of California, Berkeley

Contact: GiST Team, gist- at- db.cs.berkeley.edu

 

H-PCTE

High-performance implementation of the distributed object management system specified in the international PCTE standards ECMA-149/158 and ISO 13719.

Supplier: University of Siegen

 

Ingres (1989)

FTP directory containing 1989 Ingres tar file.

Supplier: University of California, Berkeley

 

JORM (May 2004)

Java Object Repository Mapping, an adaptable persistence service. It provides object persistency through different secondary storage supports, such as files, relational databases or object-oriented databases. It has been used to offer various personalities, such as EJB CMP (TM) in JOnAS and JDO (Java Data Objects) (TM) in Speedo.

Supplier: ObjectWeb

Contact: Pascal Dechamboux, pascal.dechamboux at francetelecom.com, jorm at objectweb.org

License terms: LGPL

 

KAON (6-Mar-2003)

KAON is an open-source ontology management infrastructure targeted for business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management, as well as building ontology-based applications. KAON focuses on integrating traditional technologies for ontology management and application with those used in business applications, such as relational databases.

Supplier: University of Karlsruhe (FZI, AIFB)

Contact: Boris Motik, boris.motik -at- fzi.de

License terms: LGPL

 

Lazy (9-Apr-2004)

Lazy is a language and a system to publish databases on the Web and to prototype Web applications. It is based on the declarative specification of active hypertext views.

Supplier: University of Geneva

Contact: Gilles Falquet, Gilles.Falquet -at- cui.unige.ch

License terms: Gnu Copyleft

 

LEAP

LEAP is an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). It is used as an educational tool around the world to help students, and assist researchers and teachers as they study and teach databases.

Contact: Richard Leyton, richard -at- leyton.org

License terms: see here

 

LINCKS (1994)

Multi-user object-centred database system.

Supplier: University of Linkoping

Contact: Martin Sjölin, marsj- at- ida.liu.se

 

MARIPOSA (1996)

Distributed Database Management System.

Supplier: University of California, Berkeley

 

MEDOR (May 2004)

Middleware Enabling Distributed Object Requests. It allows the expression, optimisation and evaluation of queries on heterogeneous distributed objects. In cooperation with JORM, it is used to offer various personalities, such as EJB QL in JOnAS and JDO QL in Speedo.

Supplier: ObjectWeb

Contact: Alexandre Lefebvre, alexandre.lefebvre at francetelecom.com, medor at objectweb.org

License terms: LGPL

 

MIND

Multidatabase system using Oracle7, Sybase, Adabas D and MOOD, implemented on top of DEC's ObjectBroker CORBA implementation.

Supplier: Middle East Technical University

Contact: Asuman Dogac, asuman -at- srdc.metu.edu.tr

 

MonetDB (Sep 2004)

MonetDB is an open source high-performance database system developed by CWI. MonetDB has been succesfully applied for data mining, OLAP, GIS, XML Query, text- and multimedia retrieval.

Supplier: CWI, The Netherlands

Contact: Martin Kersten, Martin.Kersten -at- cwi.nl

License terms: MonetDB License

 

MOOD

MOOD is an Object Oriented Database Management System. It is a public domain software.

Supplier: Middle East Technical University

Contact: Asuman Dogac, asuman -at- srdc.metu.edu.tr

 

MultiCal (Nov-2002)

Supports the management of multiple calendars, through temporal extensions to SQL. A main-memory DBMS is also available that can be used as a substrate for the calendar system.

Supplier: University of Arizona,

Contact: Richard Snodgrass

 

OSDB (13-Mar-2002)

The Open Source Database Project develops a database benchmark suite based on the AS3AP benchmark which anyone can download and use to test/optimise their hw/sw combination (SQL-based).

Contact: ariebs -at- users.sourceforge.net

 

OO7 Benchmark (1993)

Benchmark implementations for object-oriented database systems.

Supplier: University of Wisconsin

 

PAFI (Mar-2003)

A software package for finding frequent patterns in transactional, sequential, and graph datasets. It contains scalable and efficient algorithms for these problems and the ability to find long but infrequent patterns.

Supplier: University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Contact: George Karypis, karypis -at- cs.umn.edu

 

Perseus (May 2004)

Library of components for implementing containers and also persistence. It includes components for (distributed) caching, concurrency, dependency, journaling and pool management.

Supplier: ObjectWeb

Contact: Pascal Dechamboux, pascal.dechamboux at francetelecom.com, perseus at objectweb.org

License terms: LGPL

 

pgAdmin III (27-Jan-2004)

A completely free administration and development platform for the PostgreSQL database. Available in more than 30 languages for Win/NT/2000/XP, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.

Supplier: pgAdmin Team

Contact: Support page

License terms: see here

 

Postgres (1994)

Object-relational DBMS (last Berkeley release).

Supplier: University of California, Berkeley

 

PostgreSQL (5-Feb-2003)

Open source successor to Berkeley Postgres.

Supplier: PostgreSQL Global Development Group

 

Predator

Object-relational database system originally developed at Cornell University It is supported as a research and educational tool. Source code is available.

Supplier: University of Copenhagen

Contact: Philippe Bonnet, bonnet -at- diku.dk

 

Rock & Roll (Nov-1998)

Deductive Object Oriented Database System.

Supplier: Heriot-Watt University, Department of Computing & Electrical Engineering

 

Secondo (5-Jan-2009)

Secondo is an extensible database system supporting especially non-standard applications. Designed at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Secondo is a platform for implementing and experimenting with various kinds of data models. It comes with a carefully written user manual, programmer's guide and installation instructions.

Supplier: Fernuniversität in Hagen, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Contact: Ralf Hartmut Güting, rhg -at- fernuni-hagen.de, secondo -at- fernuni-hagen.de

License terms: GPL 2.0

 

Shore

Object-oriented database system.

Supplier: University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

SimpleDB (Nov-2006)

A small JDBC/SQL database system, written in Java, with well-structured, easy-to-read code. It is intended solely for the purpose of studying the internals of a database system. For example, it implements only a small subset of SQL and JDBC, eliminating those features that are not pedagogically important.

Supplier: Boston College

Contact: Edward Sciore, sciore -at- bc.edu

License terms: Public domain

 

SimpleDBM (21-Aug-2005)

The goal of SimpleDBM project is to build a Relational Database Manager in Java. Its planned features include support for transactions, write ahead log, multiple isolation levels, B-tree indexes, entry level SQL-92, and system catalogs. It is distinguished by a modular design, in which each module is usable on its own.

Supplier: Dibyendu Majumdar

Contact: Dibyendu Majumdar, dibyendu -at- mazumdar.demon.co.uk

License terms: GPL

 

Spatial Index Library (27-Apr-2004)

An extensible spatial index library in Java and C++ that supports robust spatial indexing methods and many advanced features. Currently supports R-tree variants, Multi Version R-trees (MVR-tree) and TPR-trees.

Supplier: University of California, Riverside

Contact: Marios Hadjieleftheriou, marioh -at- cs.ucr.edu

License terms: Gnu Lesser

 

Speedo (May 2004)

Open source implementation of the JDO (TM) (Java Data Objects) specification. Speedo reuses several ObjectWeb frameworks, including JORM, MEDOR, Perseus, Fractal, Julia, ASM and Monolog.

Contact: Sebastien Chassande-Barrioz, sebastien.chassandebarrioz at francetelecom.com, speedo at objectweb.org

License terms: LGPL

 

StatStream (Dec-2002)

This software can monitor thousands of time series data streams in an online fashion. In addition to single stream statistics such as average and standard deviation, it can also find high correlations among all pairs of streams. A stock market trader might use such a tool to spot arbitrage opportunities.

Supplier: New York University, Dept. of Computer Science

Contact: Yunyue Zhu, Dennis Shasha, shasha -at- cs.nyu.edu

License terms: see here

 

STREAM (Nov-2004)

STREAM is a general purpose prototype Data Stream Management System (DSMS) that supports declarative continuous queries over data streams and relations.

Supplier: Stanford University

Contact: The STREAM Group, streamdev -at- db.stanford.edu

License terms: see here

 

ToXgene - the ToX XML Data Generator (20-Mar-2003)

ToXgene is a template-based generator for large, consistent collections of synthetic XML documents, and is part of the ToX project, developed at the Univerisity of Toronto. The ToXgene Template Specification Language (TSL) is a subset of the XML Schema notation augmented with annotations for specifying certain properties of the intended data, such as value distributions, the vocabulary for CDATA content, etc.

Supplier: University of Toronto

Contact: Denilson Barbosa, dmb -at- db.toronto.edu

License terms: see here

 

TRIO - A System for Integrated Management of Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage (11-Jun-2007)

Trio is a new kind of DBMS in which data, uncertainty of the data, and data lineage are all first-class citizens. Trio is based on an extended relational model called ULDBs, and it supports a SQL-based query language called TriQL. The Trio prototype runs under Linux, Mac OS X, and Win-32.

Supplier: Stanford University Infolab

Contact: Martin Theobald, theobald -at- cs.stanford.edu, Jennifer Widom widom -at- cs.stanford.edu

License terms: see here

 

VODAK

Open Object-oriented database management system.

Supplier: Fraunhofer IPSI

Contact: Thomas Risse, risse -at- ipsi.fraunhofer.de

 

W3QS

W3QS is a query system for the WWW.

Supplier: Technion, Computer Science Department

 

WebSQL

SQL-like query language for extracting information from the web.

Supplier: University of Toronto, CS Department

Contact: websql -at- cs.toronto.edu

 

WinRDBI (Summer 2002)

The WinRDBI (Windows Relational DataBase Interpreter) educational tool provides a hands-on approach to understanding the capabilities of the following query languages for relational databases: Relational Algebra, Domain Relational Calculus, Tuple Relational Calculus, and SQL. Students can explore the query languages in an interactive environment.

Supplier: Arizona State University

Contact: Suzanne W. Dietrich, dietrich -at- asu.edu

License terms: see here

 

XBench (2001)

A family of XML DBMS benchmarks that capture different XML application characteristics.

Supplier: University of Waterloo

Contact: M. Tamer Ozsu, tozsu -at- db.uwaterloo.ca

License terms: no license required

 

XMark (19-May-2004)

XMark is Xquery benchmark suite to analyse the capabilities of an XML database.

Supplier: CWI, Amsterdam

Contact: Martin Kersten, Martin.Kersten -at- cwi.nl

License terms: public domain

 

Xplain

Xplain2sql translates the Xplain database definition and manipulation language to various SQL dialects including ANSI, InterBase, TransactSQL and PostgreSQL.

Contact: J.H. ter Bekke, j.h.terbekke -at- its.tudelft.nl

 

XQL

The GMD-IPSI XQL engine is a Java based database for native XML documents. It uses a persistent W3C DOM for storage and XQL'98 for queries. Free for personal and academic use.

Supplier: GMD IPSI

License terms: see here

 

XSB System

Prolog-based XSB deductive database system originated at SUNY Stony Brook. Includes a datalog interpreter, support for HiLog terms, and support for the well-founded semantics.

 

XXL (2004)

A flexible, high-level, platform-independent Java-library that provides a powerful and ready-to-use collection of query processing functionality.

Supplier: Philipps-University of Marburg

Contact: Juergen Kraemer, kraemerj -at- informatik.uni-marburg.de

License terms: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 

YFilter (2004)

Filtering engine of the YFilter system developed at the University of California, Berkeley. The engine processes simultaneous queries (written in a subset of XPath 1.0) against streaming XML messages in a shared fashion. For each XML message, it returns a result for every matched query.

Supplier: University of California at Berkeley

Contact: The YFilter team, help - at- yfilter.cs.berkeley.edu

License terms: see here

 

This list is currently maintained by Manfred Jeusfeld, last update: 9-Feb-2009

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