E aquí una muestra de los diferentes SMBD y sus diferentes caracteristicas

1. SMBD Maintainer↓ Fecha de la primera versión pública
4D (4th Dimension) 4D s.a.s 1984
ADABAS Software AG 1970
Adaptive Server Enterprise Sybase 1987
Advantage Database Server (ADS) Sybase 1992
Altibase Altibase Corp.[1] 2000-07
Apache Derby Apache 2004
CUBRID NHN Corporation[2] 2008-11
Datacom CA, Inc.
DB2 IBM 1983
Drizzle Brian Aker 2008
Empress Embedded Database Empress Software Inc[3] 1979
FileMaker FileMaker[4] 1984
Firebird Firebird project[5] 7/25/2000
FrontBase FrontBase, Inc[8] 1996
H2 H2 Software 2005
HP NonStop SQL Hewlett-Packard 1987
HSQLDB HSQL Development Group 2001
Informix Dynamic Server IBM 1980
Ingres Ingres Corp. 1974
InterBase Embarcadero 1984
Linter SQL RDBMS RELEX Group 1990
LucidDB The Eigenbase Project[9] 2007-01
MariaDB MariaDB Community ?
MaxDB SAP AG 2003-05
Microsoft Access (JET) Microsoft 1992
Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft 1989
Microsoft SQL Server Compact (Embedded Database) Microsoft 2000
Microsoft Visual Foxpro Microsoft 1984[10]
MonetDB The MonetDB Developer Team 2004
mSQL Hughes Technologies 1994
MySQL Sun Microsystems (nowOracle Corporation) 1995-11
Navibase Naviworx 2009
Nexusdb Nexus Database Systems Pty Ltd[13] 2003-09
Omnis Studio TigerLogic Inc[14] 1982-07
OpenBase SQL OpenBase International[15] 1991
OpenEdge Progress Software Corporation 1984
OpenLink Virtuoso OpenLink Software[17] 1998
Oracle Oracle Corporation 1979-11
Oracle Rdb Oracle Corporation 1984
Paradox Corel Corporation[18] 1985
Pervasive PSQL Pervasive Software 1982
Polyhedra DBMS ENEA AB 1993
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL Global Development Group[19] 1989-06
R:Base R:BASE Technologies[22] 1982
RDM Embedded Raima Inc.[23] 1984
RDM Server Raima Inc.[23] 1990
ScimoreDB Scimore[24] 2005
SmallSQL SmallSQL 4/16/2005
SQL Anywhere Sybase 1992

2. SQLBase Unify Corp.[25] 1982
SQLite D. Richard Hipp 8/17/2000
Superbase Superbase 1984
Teradata Teradata 1984
UniData Rocket Software 1988
UniVerse Rocket Software 1985

3. Última versión estable Última fecha de lanzamiento
v12.2 SQL
8.1
15.5
10.1 2010-12
5.1.1
10.8.1.2 5/2/2011
8.4.0 5/12/2011
11.2
9.7 4/22/2009
Build 1126
10.20 2010-03
11.0 2010-03
2.5 10/4/2010
5.1.2 2010-01
1.3.154 4/4/2011
SQL/MX 2.3
2.2.5 2011-07
11.70.xC2 3/28/2011
Ingres Database 10 10/12/2010
InterBase XE 9/21/2010
6.x
0.9.3
5.2 9/22/2011
7.6 2008-01
14 (2010)
2008 R2 (v10.5)
2010 (v3.5 SP2)
9 (2005) 2007-10-11[10]
5.22 2010-10
3.9[12] 2011-02
5.5.8 12/15/2010
1.0.0 11/2/2010
3.04 5/8/2010
4.3.1 Release 1no 2008-05
11.0.0
10.2B
6.2 2010-09
11g Release 2 2009-09
7.2.5.0 2011-06-20[16]
11 2003
11 2010-09
8.4 2010-12
9.1.0[20] 9/12/2011
7.6
10
8.3
3.0 3/3/2008
0.20 2008-12
12.0 7/9/2010

4. 11.5 2008-11
3.7.6.3 2011-05-19[26]
Scientific (2004)
13.10
7.2.10 2011-04
11.1.3 2011-06

5. Software license↓
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Apache License
GPL v2
Proprietary
Proprietary
BSD, GPL v2
Proprietary
Proprietary
IPL[6] and IDPL[7]
Proprietary
EPL and modified MPL
Proprietary
BSD
Proprietary
GPL and Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
GPL v2
GPL v2
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
MonetDB Public License v1.1[11]
Proprietary
GPL or Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
GPL or Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
PostgreSQL licence (Free and Open Source)[21]
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
LGPL
Proprietary

6. Proprietary
Public domain
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary