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Adabas
Adaptive Server Anywhere
Adaptive Server IQ
Angara Main Memory Database
Cachı
CodeBase
CQL++ - SQL Data Management System
D3
DB2 Database Server 4
DB2 for MVS/ESA 4
DB2 Parallel Edition
DB2 Universal Database
Empress DB Server
Empress RDBMS
Extended Parallel Option
FairCom Database Server
Heuristic Optimized Processing System
IBM RS/6000 SP
Informix Dynamic Server
Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition
Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Edition
Informix-DataBlade Modules
Informix-SE
InterBase
Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition
Model 204
MSM for Windows NT
MSM-PC/PLUS
MSM-SQL
MSM-Unix
NonStop SQL/MP
OpenIngres
Oracle Rdb
Oracle8 Database Server
Pervasive.SQL
Raima Database Manager++
Red Brick Warehouse
Spatial Database Engine
Spatial Query Server (SQS)
SpatialWare
SQLBase
Sybase Adaptive Server
System 1032
Teradata Parallel Relational Database
Titanium
UniData
Universal Data Option for Informix Dynamic Server
Velocis Database Server

Adabas
Software AG Americas Inc.
Reston, VA; 888-724-2394
www.sagafyi.com
Adabas is a high-performance, around-the-clock database management product designed to handle huge volumes of changing data. Using Adabas with other technologies from SAGA, companies can build distributed databases to access data across heterogeneous, geographically dispersed platforms.

Adaptive Server Anywhere
Sybase Inc.
Emeryville, CA;
www.sybase.com
Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA), the successor to SQL Anywhere 5.5, is an optimized database designed for mobile and workgroup computing environments and includes a small-footprint, easily embedded, self-tuning DBMS with comprehensive Java support. Using powerful symmetric multiprocessing systems, ASA has the ability to extend performance, enabling larger numbers of concurrent users, faster data access, and larger volumes of data.

Adaptive Server IQ
Sybase Inc.
Emeryville, CA; 800-879-2273
www.sybase.com
Adaptive Server IQ is designed for high-performance data analysis with a combination of innovative patented query processing technologies and performance-optimized algorithms. It offers ad hoc query performance up to 100 times faster than traditional relational database management systems and maintains performance even as users' questions adapt to changing business requirements.

Angara Main Memory Database
Angara Database Systems Inc.
Palo Alto, CA; 714-622-5446, 650-322-1810
www.angara.com
The Angara Main Memory Database is a memory-based relational database designed to work either alone or in conjunction with a standard disk-based DBMS to handle permanently memory-resident tables more than 10 times faster than the cache of a standard disk-based DBMS.

Cachı
InterSystems Corp.
Cambridge, MA; 617-621-0600
www.intersys.com
Cachı is a postrelational DBMS with advanced object-oriented (OO) functionality. Optimized for complex transaction processing, Cachı offers a transactional database engine that supports multidimensional data handling, full OO facilities, and SQL support for legacy relational applications.

CodeBase
Sequiter Software Inc.
Edmonton, Alberta Canada; 403-437-2410
www.sequiter.com
CodeBase is an xBase-compatible database engine that provides single-user, multiuser, and client/server database access for C, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Java and OLE DB programmers. CodeBase is compatible with dBase, FoxPro, and Clipper files and supports 16- and 32-bit development under Windows, DOS, Unix, OS/2, and Macintosh. Includes ActiveX data-aware controls and a visual report designer.

CQL++ - SQL Data Management System
Tache Group Inc.
Melbourne, FL; 888-252-6050, 407-768-6050
www.tachegroup.com/products/CQL/takecontrol.html
CQL++ is an implementation of ANSI (1989) SQL with ODBC extensions. CQL++ is a SQL/ODBC package,a B-tree/ISAM package, and is integrated into one product with complete C++ source code. CQL++ Supports client/server processing over heterogeneous networks. CQL++ is a multiplatform product.

D3
Pick Systems
Irvine, CA; 800-367-7425
www.picksys.com
D3 is a DBMS server that enables application developers to design, deploy, and maintain business solutions in Internet or n-tier client/server environments. D3 is ODBC and SQL compliant and supports distributed databases through its Open Systems File Interface. D3-NT combines component-based development with the high-performance D3 data model. D3 allows VB developers to directly manipulate data through extensions in the VB class library. D3 operates on most popular Unix platforms, Windows NT, and Windows 95.

DB2 Database Server 4
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4968, 520-574-4600
www.ibm.com
DB2 Database Server 4 provides a foundation for managing data. Multimedia applications can be created to present data, using video, images, and audio techniques. Both local and remote users can store, retrieve, manipulate, manage and share data. DB2 Database Server also lets developers build Web applications for DB2 databases, create multimedia applications using video, images, and audio, and customize DB2 applications using the Software Developer's Kit (SDK). Each DB2 Database Server includes the SDK for its respective platform. SDKs for other platforms are also available. It provides data access on OS/2, AIX, and Windows NT platforms.

DB2 for MVS/ESA 4
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4968, 520-574-4600
www.ibm.com
DB2 for MVS/ESA provides a platform for application development and data management in an open client/server environment. Its features address customer requirements for improved availability, performance, and user productivity, and make possible better data integrity and security in a distributed enterprise. It supports parallel query processing, stored procedures, and large distributed networks. DB2 for MVS/ESA is a platform for large data warehouses.

DB2 Parallel Edition
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4968, 520-574-4600
www.ibm.com
DB2 Parallel Edition is an extension of the DB2 for AIX relational database for RISC System/6000 systems. It is used for decision support, online transaction processing, online analytical processing, and in mission-critical business applications. It includes a graphical Database Director for managing the DB2 Parallel Edition environment, a Governor for controlling resource usage, and asynchronous ODBC support for Windows clients.

DB2 Universal Database
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-992-4777
www.ibm.com
DB2 Universal Database (for Unix, Windows, and OS/2) is a multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system, scaling from desktops to workgroups to the enterprise. It delivers on IBM's network computing promise, linking the world's business information with the Internet, and handling tasks as diverse as business intelligence and OLTP.

Empress DB Server
Empress Software Inc.
Greenbelt, MD; 301-220-1919
www.empress.com
With Empress DB Server, users have the ability to distribute their Empress RDBMS across a mixed-hardware network of computers for true peer-to-peer database functionality. Any system on the network can be designated as a client, server, or both, giving full flexibility to the network manager for load balancing and application design.

Empress RDBMS
Empress Software Inc.
Greenbelt, MD; 301-220-1919
www.empress.com
Empress RDBMS is an application development tool that offers data manipulation options. It can store and retrieve any data type that can be digitized, such as x-rays, voice, fingerprints, maps, and instrumentation readings. Empress's fast, compact database engine makes it ideal for embedded applications. Date variables and microsecond timestamps make this database Year 2000 compliant.

Extended Parallel Option
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
Informix's Extended Parallel Option extends the base functionality of Informix Dynamic Server to support cluster architectures, including clusters of symmetric multiprocessor systems, massively parallel processor systems, and NUMA. Particularly well-suited for data intensive tasks associated with data warehousing, decision support, and other very large database applications, the Extended Parallel Option offers a set of features directly associated with improving application performance, availability, and manageability.

FairCom Database Server
FairCom Corp.
Columbia, MO; 573-445-6833
www.faircom.com
FairCom Database Server minimizes network traffic and uses multithreading. With heterogeneous networks support, dissimilar clients can attach to any FairCom Server. Build the application for one platform and migrate to more than 20 platforms by rebuilding your client application.

Heuristic Optimized Processing System
HOPS International Inc.
Miami Lakes, FL;
www.hops.com
The Heuristic Optimized Processing System (HOPS) handles files in the multiterabyte range, performs complex joins and indexes, sorts, and retrieves data. It uses heuristic algorithms to determine and assign the most efficient processing method. The user is not required to optimize a preselected set of access paths, or preprocess data during the load and update phase. It incorporates a relational database engine that places no restrictions on how the data is structured or accessed. It provides diverse installed data warehousing applications such as micromarketing, fraud detection, sales analysis, inventory analysis, actuarial analysis, manufacturing process analysis, environmental assessment system, GIS, and more. HOPS servers are currently available for Digital Alpha and Solaris. It can perform multiple tasks simultaneously and take full advantage of scalable SMP hardware performance.

IBM RS/6000 SP
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4329, 415-855-4329
www.ibm.com
The IBM RS/6000 SP is a parallel system that can scale up to more than 4000 microprocessors. It runs DSS and data-mining applications such as IBM DB2 Parallel Edition, Informix XPS, Oracle Parallel Server, Red Brick xPP, and Sybase MPP. It offers MVS mainframe interoperability and operates by clustering individual nodes (up to 512, each of which can house eight microprocessors).

Informix Dynamic Server
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
Informix's Dynamic Scalable Architecture is the foundation of Informix Dynamic Server, providing parallel database architecture for enterprises -- from the desktop to departments to the data center. Informix Dynamic Server is designed to help customers manage increasingly larger and more complex databases while improving overall system performance. Informix Dynamic Server speeds query and administration tasks, maintains optimal performance regardless of computing environment, and lets customers build database applications that take full advantage of all available hardware resources -- including processor or multiprocessor platforms.

Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition is a single-user, cost-effective platform for the development and deployment of workgroup applications. Informix Dynamic Server, Developer Edition, combines a parallelized database server, complete connectivity for client/server and desktop applications, and a Web and intranet server and browser into a single package with easy-to-use administration and configuration tools. In addition, it includes developer libraries, enabling its dual use as a deployment or developer solution.

Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Edition
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Edition is a complete database solution for developing and deploying client/server and Web and intranet applications across an organization, including distributed workgroups and cross-functional departments. It combines a high-performance, scalable, multithreaded database server, a full suite of distributed capabilities, replication services, complete connectivity for client/server and desktop applications, and Web intranet services.

Informix-DataBlade Modules
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
Informix-DataBlade Modules are software extensions that plug into Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option letting them understand and manage new types of complex data and related functions. Customers can mix and match a wide selection of prebuilt DataBlade modules from third parties or Informix, or design their own, to create database applications.

Informix-SE
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA; 800-331-1763, 415-926-6300
www.informix.com
Informix-SE is an easy-to-use, low maintenance, "load-and-go" database server that provides data consistency, client/server capabilities, and SQL compliance -- while requiring minimal database administration.

InterBase
Borland International
Scotts Valley, CA; 888-345-2015, 408-430-1500
www.borland.com
The InterBase RDBMS is implemented as a two-tier client/server architecture: a client application and a server technology that offers transparent support across heterogeneous netwroks. This architecture is flexible, letting you embed the InterBase database engine in a vertical application.

Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Corp.
Redmond, WA; 800-426-9400, 425-882-8080
www.microsoft.com
Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition is a database management system designed specifically for the largest Windows NT applications. It extends the capabilities of SQL Server by providing higher levels of scalability, performance, built-in high availability, and a comprehensive platform for deploying distributed, mission-critical database applications.

Model 204
Computer Corporation of America
Framingham, MA;
cca-int.com
Model 204 is built for IBM System 370 and System 390 series computers. It is designed for rapid access to large-scale databases and supports parallel processing with a multiprocessor option. Version 4.1 provides full Year 2000 compliance.

MSM for Windows NT
Micronetics Design Corp.
Rockville, MD; 800-258-2605, 301-258-2605
www.micronetics.com
MSM for Windows NT brings the features of the MSM database to the Windows NT environment for the Intel and DEC Alpha platforms. It provides standard interfaces and protocols and complete Telnet support. Developers can use MSM for Windows NT to build either Web or client/server applications.

MSM-PC/PLUS
Micronetics Design Corp.
Rockville, MD; 800-258-2605, 301-258-2605
www.micronetics.com
MSM-PC/PLUS offers a full implementation of the ANSI-standard MSM database for the PC environment. It supports a wide variety of development tools and has a comprehensive library of utilities for configuring and managing applications. It also offers extensive scalability, supporting single-user workstation applications to large, enterprisewide systems.

MSM-SQL
Micronetics Design Corp.
Rockville, MD; 800-258-2605, 301-258-2605
www.micronetics.com
MSM-SQL is a relational DBMS that supports ODBC to give MSM databases access to other data sources. It combines optimized code and efficient disk buffering features.

MSM-Unix
Micronetics Design Corp.
Rockville, MD; 800-258-2605, 301-258-2605
www.micronetics.com
MSM-Unix is an implementation of MSM for the Unix environment. It supports most popular Unix platforms, including IBM RS/6000, DEC Alpha, HP, DG, and SCO Unix. It provides source code that is compatible with the MSM for Windows NT and MSM-PC/PLUS servers.

NonStop SQL/MP
Tandem, a Compaq Company
Cupertino, CA; 408-285-6000
www.tandem.com
NonStop SQL/MP is a parallel relational database management system designed for data warehouse and online transaction processing applications. It uses hash joins for joining tables and employs accelerated groupings. It supports online database management procedures such as repartitioning, reorganization, and backup, while users continue to access the entire database.

OpenIngres
Computer Associates
Islandia, NY;
www.cai.com
OpenIngres is an RDBMS family of solutions for achieving mission-critical processing that lets organizations model business logic and integrate applications and data while meeting dependability, availability, and performance requirements. Client/server architecture, portability, and replication allow for the integration of desktop, Unix, midrange and mainframe applications and data within a single distributed framework. Solutions include access to Web data, centralized administration of distributed systems, transparent two-phase commit for distributed data integrity, and read/write access to existing data in relational and nonrelational systems.

Oracle Rdb
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA; 800-542-1170, 650-506-7000
www.oracle.com
Oracle Rdb is a full-featured database for large-scale, mission-critical applications on OpenVMS VAX and Alpha. Tight integration makes Rdb7 well suited for applications requiring the highest levels of performance, disaster tolerance, availability and ease of management on OpenVMS. Rdb7 supports Oracle technologies for development and decision support, the Web, networking, and management.

Oracle8 Database Server
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA;
www.oracle.com
The Oracle8 object relational database provides a complete solution to address the object functionality needs of the mainstream business market. It combines the management of complexity in developing applications for complicated business processes, the management and manipulation of any data in a single data store, and the industry's most robust, most scalable, and highest performance deployment platform.

Pervasive.SQL
Pervasive Software
Austin, TX; 800-287-4383
www.pervasive-sw.com

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Pervasive.SQL is an embedded database solution that offers both transactional and relational data access from a single integrated Microkernal Database Engine. This architecture lets packaged client/server applications access a common database with both the transaction processing of a navigational database and the reporting and decision support features of a SQL database.

Raima Database Manager++
Raima Corp.
Seattle, WA; 800-327-2462, 206-557-0200
www.raima.com
RDM++ is a low-level database engine for embedding in applications. It includes a library of C functions for database manipulation and control, as well as a C++ class library that encapsulates database navigation and object storage andretrieval in C++ classes. RDM++ facilitates creation of databases in the relational model, the network model, or a combination of the two. RDM++ supports transaction processing, and scales from DOS-based computers up to Unix machines supporting hundreds of users. It runs on DOS, Macintosh, Phar Lap 286, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows CE and major Unix and realtime operating systems.

Red Brick Warehouse
Red Brick Systems Inc.
Los Gatos, CA; 800-621-2808, 408-399-3200
www.redbrick.com
Red Brick Systems Inc.develops a comprehensive, integrated platform of data warehousing products and services to help its customers get fast and accurate answers to business-critical questions. Red Brick Warehouse, Red Brick's flagship RDBMS built from the ground up for data warehousing, helps customers maximize query performance, reduce total cost of ownership and gain high return-on-investment in a data warehouse environment through server-integrated advances such as Red Brick Vista and Red Brick Data Mine.

Spatial Database Engine
Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.
Redlands, CA; 800-447-9778, 909-793-2853 x11640
www.esri.com
Spatial Database Engine is an object-based spatial data access engine that employs client/server architecture combined with a set of software services to perform efficient spatial operations and management of large, shared, geographic data sets.

Spatial Query Server (SQS)
Vision International of Autometric Inc.
Springfield, VA; 703-923-4300
www.autometric.com
The Spatial Query Server (SQS) is a multithreaded database engine that supports the definition of spatial datatypes (for example, point, line, and polygon), a set of spatial operations for these datatypes (for example, intersects, inside, and within), and a spatial indexing schema for efficient retrieval. SQS supports spatial datatypes for schema creation, data insertion, modification, and retrieval.

SpatialWare
MapInfo Corp.
Troy, NY; 800-627-8627
www.mapinfo.com
SpatialWare stores and manages complex spatial data in corporate relational database servers for ISO SQL3-based spatial querying. Users are able to incorporate mapping for visualization and analysis within enterprise applications and data warehouse environments to support critical business decisions.

SQLBase
Centura Software Corp.
Redwood Shores, CA;
www.centurasoft.com
SQLBase is a PC-based client/server RDBMS. Specifically targeted at the embedded database market, SQLBase offers capabilities for traditional client/server developers using tools such as Visual Basic, Delphi, C++, and Java. SQLBase is a small-footprint, full-featured relational database.

Sybase Adaptive Server
Sybase Inc.
Emeryville, CA; 800-879-2273, 510-596-3500
www.sybase.com
A relational database server based on an advanced multithreaded database operating system architecture. It features scalable high-performance, server-enforced integrity, high application availability, and online distributed RDBMS capabilities. It can link any terminal, PC, or workstation with any server. Sybase Adaptive Server technology supports open, standards-based connectivity.

System 1032
Computer Corporation of America
Framingham, MA;
cca-int.com
System 1032 is a DBMS and application development environment desgined to support the Open VMS user community. System 1032 offers users of Digital Equipment Corp.'s Open VMS running on VAX or Alpha AXP Systems high-performance, fleixble and easy-to-manage database technology. The database engine is optimized for rapid querying even when working with vast quantities of data. The product has optional client API and ODBC interfaces.

Teradata Parallel Relational Database
NCR Corp.
Dayton, OH;
www.ncr.com
NCR Teradata is an open ANSI-compliant parallel relational database management system for Unix and Windows NT. Teradata automatically distributes data randomly across all "units of parallelism" and balances and schedules query workloads. Teradata provides native channel connectivity to most mainframe environments and supports clients running on IBM MVS, VM, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, 98, and NT, OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix.

Titanium
Micro Data Base Systems Inc.
West Lafayette, IN; 800-445-6327, 765-463-7200
www.mdbs.com
Titanium is a multimodel DBMS for developers of applications with complex data relationships. Patented dynamic pointer array technology directly supports complex relationships, executing queries without joins or redundant data for unmatched performance. A multimodel database engine that supports ODMG C++, SQL, and ODBC, Titanium enables simultaneous access to data via pure object-oriented, relational, and navigational data models.

UniData
Ardent Software Inc.
Westboro, MA; 800-959-1221, 303-294-0800
www.ardentsoftware.com
UniData is a SQL-compliant, nested RDBMS and application development environment. UniData is used to develop new applications or to migrate and redeploy transaction-heavy legacy business applications to open systems. Data stored in the RDBMS is accessible by any of Unidata's programming environments, including SQL, Pick/Prime, Cobol, and object-relational systems.

Universal Data Option for Informix Dynamic Server
Informix Software Inc.
Menlo Park, CA;
www.informix.com
The Universal Data Option and Informix Dynamic Server make an integrated system that can be extended to manage all of an organization's information, including complex application logic, images, and presentations. Integrated with Informix's database technology, Universal Data Option makes it easy to use a company's existing IT infrastructure while enabling a new class of innovative business applications that evolve with business needs. Universal Data Option delivers a framework for Web and content management applications, analytic data marts, and innovative OLTP applications.

Velocis Database Server
Raima Corp.
Seattle, WA; 800-327-2462, 206-557-0200
www.raima.com
Velocis Database Server is a client/server database engine for application development. Velocis provides multiple APIs, including a SQL C-API, record-level C-API, a C++ API through Raima Object Manager, and custom APIs through Server Extensions. Raima also offers a JDBC driver for Velocis, and Delphi, Perl and Visual Basic interfaces. Velocis supports the relational database model, the network database model, and databases created using elements of both models. Velocis is available on nearly all popular operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 95, AIX, BSDI, HP-UX, Linux, SCO, OS/2 and others.

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