| ADABAS | ADAMO | ActiveX Data Objects | Adaplex | Adaptive Server Enterprise |
| Aditi | Advanced Revelation | An Evolutionary System for On-line Programming | BTRIEVE Technologies, Inc. | CO2 |
| Call-Level Interface | Cardbox for Windows | Codd's reduction algorithm | ColdFusion | Conference On DAta SYstems Languages |
| Customer Information Control System | DATATRIEVE | DB2 | DDM | Data Manipulation Language |
| Data definition language | DataStage | Distributed Data Management | EDS+ | ERC |
| ETL | ETM | EXODUS | Entry Sequenced Data Set | FOCUS |
| FoxBASE+ | FoxPRO | Graph-Oriented Object Database | HyperBase | IDMS |
| IDMSX | IMS/Data Base | IMS/Data Communications | Independent Logical File | Indexed Sequential Access Method |
| Information Management System | Integrated Database Management System | JAZELLE | Java Database Connectivity | Keyed Sequenced Data Set |
| Microsoft Access | Microsoft Data Access Components | Microsoft SQL Server | Mimer SQL | Multi-Version Concurrency Control |
| Multics Relational Data Store | NOMAD | National Database Language | OLE DB | Object Data Management Group |
| On-Line Analytical Processing | On-Line Transaction Processing | Open DataBase Connectivity | OpenInsight | Optimal Flexible Architecture |
| Oracle 7 | Oracle Parallel Server | Oracle Rdb | PE | POSTGRES |
| Paradox | Persistent Functional Language | PostgreSQL | PowerBuilder | Query By Example |
| Quicksilver | R:BASE | Red Brick Intelligent SQL | Relative Record Data Set | Remote Database Access |
| SQL | SQL Server | SQL server | SQL2 | SQL3 |
