THE OCELOT SQL DBMS

Not a subset, not a mini version, not a variant in any way -- THE OCELOT SQL DBMS is 100% ANSI/ISO conformant. And it works! It's running 24x7 commercial packages while you read this. For a free download, Click here. In the pages listed below, there are comments and specifications of Ocelot's implementation. Since Ocelot is standard SQL, these pages are useful references for all implementations of SQL-92 or SQL-99.

SQL-92 Commands -- a list of all the verbs in SQL

SQL-99 Datatypes -- numeric, string, bit and datetime fields

SQL-92 Constraints -- primary and foreign keys, CHECKs

SQL-92 Character Sets and Collations -- all major European languages

How Ocelot stores SQL-92 Data

SQL-92 Functions and Operators -- all the SQL-92 scalar and arithmetic things

SQL-92 Information_Schema -- also known as "metadata" or "system tables"

SQL-92 Objects -- a list of all the things that can be in a cluster

ODBC compatibility -- Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity spec

Searching SQL-92 Databases -- some of the many things you can do when selecting

Full SQL-92 conformance -- formal statement with qualifications

Ocelot System Requirements -- DLL size, OS, Disk, RAM

SQL PRICE COMPARISON

As evidence that THE OCELOT SQL DBMS is by far the cheapest SQL DBMS, here is a comparison price chart of SQL DBMS vendors for Windows, as taken from manufacturers' web sites in November 2000. We do not try to keep this list up to date, it's just a general guide. We do not include non-Windows or trial versions or non-commercial versions. Price is for one license copy.

Product     Price
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DB2         $351 (personal edition)
            source:IBM
Informix    $540 (developer edition)
            source:Informix
Microsoft   $1489.00 (5 clients)
            source:Microsoft
Mimer       $129.95
            source:Buyonet
MySQL       $200.00
            source:MySQL
Ocelot      $0
            source:Ocelot
            Technical support not available.
Oracle8i    $395 (single-user)
            source:Oracle Store
Sybase      $3000? (multi-user)
            source:Sybase
Yard        DM 990 (5-user)
            source:yard