Dictionary: Databases

  • Access - A database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines a relational database engine with a GUI and software-development tools.
  • Aurora - A proprietary relational database offered as a service by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Azure SQL Database [Azure SQL] - A managed cloud database (PaaS) cloud-based Microsoft SQL Servers, provided as part of Microsoft Azure services.
  • BigQuery - A managed, serverless data warehouse product by Google, offering scalable analysis over large quantities of data.
  • Bigtable - A fully managed wide-column and key-value NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads as part of the Google Cloud portfolio.
  • Cassandra - A free and open-source database management system designed to handle large volumes of data across multiple commodity servers.
  • ClickHouse - An open-source column-oriented DBMS (columnar database management system) for online analytical processing (OLAP) that allows users to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real-time.
  • CloudSQL - A fully managed relational database service for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server offered by Google
  • Cosmos DB - A globally distributed, multi-model database service offered by Microsoft.
  • Databricks - A unified, cloud-based analytics platform for building, deploying, and maintaining data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.
  • DuckDB - An open-source column-oriented Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).
  • DynamoDB - A managed NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Elasticsearch - A source-available search engine based on Apache Lucene that provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine.
  • GraphQL - A data query and manipulation language that allows specifying what data is to be retrieved ("declarative data fetching") or modified.
  • HBase - An open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java.
  • InfluxDB - A time series database (TSDB) developed by the company InfluxData.
  • MariaDB - A community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License.
  • MaxDB - An ANSI SQL-92 (entry level) compliant relational database management system (RDBMS) from SAP AG, which was also delivered by MySQL AB from 2003 to 2007.
  • Memcached - A general-purpose distributed memory-caching system often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM .
  • MongoDB - A cross-platform NoSQL database product that uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas.