Kexi is an integrated data management application, designed to fill the gap between spreadsheets and database solutions requiring more sophisticated development. Kexi can be used for designing and implementing databases, data inserting and processing, and performing queries.

The impetus for developing Kexi came from a noticeable lack of applications having the features of Microsoft Access, FoxPro, Oracle Forms or FileMaker while ...
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Microsoft Access is a pseudo relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editions or sold separately.

Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import...
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Microsoft SQL Server is a relational model database server produced by Microsoft. Its primary query languages are T-SQL and ANSI SQL.

Microsoft makes SQL Server available in multiple editions, with different feature sets and targeting different users.

The main unit of data storage is a database, which is a collection of tables with typed columns. SQL Server supports different data types, including primary types such...
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Firebird is an open source relational database management system that runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. The database forked from Borland's open source edition of InterBase in 2000, but since Firebird 1.5 the code has been largely rewritten.

Within a week of the InterBase 6.0 source being released by Borland on 25 July 2000,[2][3] the Firebird project was created on SourceForge.[4][5] Firebird 1.0 was ...
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OpenOffice.org Base ("Base" for short), a database module, initially appeared with OpenOffice.org version 2.0. As of 2010, it builds on the HSQLDB database engine written in Java.

OpenOffice.org users can connect to external full-featured SQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle through ODBC or JDBC drivers. OpenOffice.org Base can hence act as a GUI frontend for SQL views, table-design and query. In addition, OpenOffic...
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MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named for original developer Michael Widenius's daughter My.

The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the S...
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SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small (~275 kiB)[4] C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.

Unlike client–server database management systems, the SQLite engine is not a standalone process with which the application program communicates. Instead, the SQLite library is linked in and thus becomes an integral part of the applicat...
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