Carnegie Mellon's Awesome 'Database of Databases'
A soup-to-nuts guide to 800 DBMSs developed over the past 50 years
As someone who has followed the database industry for 25+ years, it sometimes feels like I’ve seen it all:
Adabase, Aurora, Bigtable, BigQuery, Greenplum, Cloudera, Cockroach, Couchbase, DB2, DataStax, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, EDB, Essbase, Fauna, Firebase, Firestore, HANA, Illustra, Informix, Intersystems, MarkLogic, MongoDB, MySQL, Neo4j, NoSQL, Pervasive, Pinecone, Postgres, Redis, Redshift, SingleStore, Splunk, SQL Server, Sybase, Teradata, TileDB, Timescale, TimesTen, Vertica, Yellowbrick (and Red Brick!), Yugabyte.
I’ve covered them all and more. And yet, I’ve really only scratched the surface.
There are hundreds and hundreds of database management systems in the world, including commercial, open source, and research databases.
My go-to source for these systems is the “Database of Databases,” an online compendium of nearly 800 different DBMSs that has been compiled by Carnegie Mellon University’s Database Group.
You can view it here: The Database of Databases.