Are PostgreSQL and Ingres related? What MariaDB, MySQL and Infobright
have in common? What is the origin of Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase ASE? The HPI Genealogy of Relational Database Management Systems is a very interesting map of DBMS origins and genealogy that answers all the above questions.
Some of the DBMS that appear in the Genealogy are:
- Access
- AdabasD
- DB2
- dBase
- Derb
- Empress Embedded
- EXASolution
- FileMaker
- Firebird
- FoxPro
- GreenPlum
- HSQLDB
- H-Store
- HyperHana
- IDM 500
- Impala
- Infobright
- Informix
- Ingres
- InnoDB
- MariaDB
- Mariposa
- MaxDB
- MemSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MonetDB
- mSQL
- MySQL
- Netezza
- Nonstop SQL
- Oracle
- Paradox
- PostgreSQL
- Red Brick
- RedShift
- SAP DB
- ShareBase
- Solid DB
- SQL Anywhere
- SQLite
- Sybase
- System-R
- Teradata Database
- TimesTen
- Trafodion
- Transbase
- VectorWise
- Vertica
- VoltDB
So, here is the Genealogy. Click on the image to Zoom.
Thanks to Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann and the Hasso-Plattner-Institut for maintaning such information. This is free for download and use under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. At the RDBMS Genealogy homepage, you can also find high resolution jpg and printer’s pdf files.