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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Apache Accumulo, Apache Cassandra, Apache Derby, BaseX, Berkeley DB, BlackRay, C-Store, Calpont, Cdb (software), Comparison of database access, CouchDB, CSQL, CUBRID, Database Deployment Manager, Database Management Library, Dataphor, Db4o, Dbm, Drizzle (database server), Druid (database designer), Eloquera, Eloquera database, EnterpriseDB, EXist, Firebird (database server), FleetDB, FlockDB, Fyracle, Gadfly (database), GCfilms, GCstar, Gizzard (Scala framework), GNOME-DB, GT.M, H-Store, H2 (DBMS), HBase, Hibari (database), HSQLDB, Hypertable, Infobright, Ingres (database), JGnash, Kexi, LucidDB, MariaDB, Membase, MemcacheDB, Metakit, Mnesia, MonetDB, MongoDB, Mozilla Raindrop, MSQL-JDBC, MySQL, Neo4j, NeoDatis ODB, Neo (object-relational toolset), OpenOffice Base, OpenQM, OrientDB, Perst, PostgreSQL, Redis, Rel (DBMS), RRDtool, Sedna (database), Shapado, SmallSQL, Sones GraphDB, SQLite, Strozzi NoSQL (RDBMS), Tarantool, TreapDB, TxtSQL, Virtuoso Universal Server, VoltDB, Wakanda (software), Zope Object Database. Excerpt: PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software. PostgreSQL is developed by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, consisting of a handful of volunteers employed and supervised by companies such as Red Hat and EnterpriseDB. It implements the majority of the SQL:2008 standard, is ACID-compliant, is fully transactional (including all DDL statements), has extensible data types, operators, index methods, functions, aggregates, procedural languages, and has a large number of extensions written by third parties. The vast majority of Linux distributions have PostgreSQL available in supplied packages. Mac OS X, starting with Lion, has PostgreSQL server as its standard default database in the server edition, and PostgreSQL client tools in the desktop edition. The mixed-capitalization of the PostgreSQL name can confuse some people on first viewing. The several pronunciations of "SQL" can add to this confusion. PostgreSQL's developers pronounce it; (Audio sample, 5.6k MP3). It is abbreviated as "Postgres," its original name. Because of ubiquitous support for the SQL Standard amongst most relational databases, the community considered changing the name back to Postgres. However, the PostgreSQL Core Team announced in 2007 that the product would continue to use the name PostgreSQL. The name refers to the project's origins as a "post-Ingres" database, being a development from University Ingres DBMS (Ingres being an abbreviation for INteractive Graphics REtrieval System). PostgreSQL evolved from the Ingres project at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1982, the project leader, Michael Stonebraker, left Berkeley to make a proprietary version of Ingres. He returned to Berkeley in 1985 and started a post-Ingres projec
