02170 Database Systems, Spring 2006

Software (free)

Relational Databases:

• The PostgreSQL Relational Database System: http://www.postgresql.org/.
  PostgreSQL is both available for Linux and Windows.

• MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/

• Firebird: http://www.firebirdsql.org/

• Berkeley DB: http://www.sleepycat.com/

ER-Diagram Tools

• Dia, Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. Dia is designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'.
  http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
  http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/

• TCM, Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/ 

XML editors

• Eclipse, Web Tools project, http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/

• Xray2 from http://architag.com/xray/

• Altova Authentic 2005: http://www.altova.com/products_doc.html

• Altova XMLSpy Home Edition: http://www.altova.com/download_spy_home.html

• Cladonia, The Exchanger XML Editor: 
          http://www.freexmleditor.com/fxeeditor/downloads.html?x=78&y=23

• jEdit: http://www.jedit.org/ , with the xml and xquery plugins installed:
  jEdit as an Advanced XML Editor: 
      http://www.adrem.ua.ac.be/~wellenslepage/jedit_as_axe/

• xml-editor listing: http://www.xml.com/pub/pt/3

XML-Schema Validation and XQuery Engines:

• Qexo - The GNU Kawa implementation of XQuery:
      http://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/

• IPSI-XQ, The XQuery Demonstrator:
          http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/i-info/en/content/view/74/0//download_e.html

• Galax: http://www.galaxquery.org/

• AltovaXML 2006, validation, xslt, xquery engine:
      http://www.altova.com/altovaxml.html

• Saxon: http://saxon.sourceforge.net/ , can be used in jEdit (see above)

XML databases

• The native XML database eXist: http://exist.sourceforge.net/ .
• Berkeley DB XML: http://www.sleepycat.com/products/bdbxml.html

Hans Bruun     (  hab@imm.dtu.dk ) 07-02-2006