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MySQL 

MySQL is the world's most popular open source multithreaded, multi-user relational database management system.  The basic program runs as a server providing multiuser access to a number of databases. for accessing MySQL databases are available in all major programming languages with language-specific APIs. In addition, an ODBC interface called MyODBC allows additional programming languages that support the ODBC interface to communicate with a MySQL database, such as ASP or ColdFusion. The MySQL server and official libraries are mostly implemented in ANSI C/ANSI C++.

Fore more information and recent releases see MySQL Home page. Also see MySQL.com  

 Download MySQL-client-5.0.27-0.i386.rpm

Download MySQL-server-5.0.27-0.i386.rpm

PostgreSQL 

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL92 and SQL99 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others.

For more information and recent releases see PostgreSQL Homepage. 

Download

postgresql-8.1.5.tar.gz

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS),  much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been certified as compliant with the "Types and Functions" profile.

Download

postgis-1.1.6.tar.gz

HeidiSQL is an easy-to-use interface and a "working-horse" for web-developers using the popular MySQL-Database. It allows you to manage and browse your databases and tables from an intuitive interface.

With HeidiSQL you will also be able to

For more information see HeidiSQL Homepage. 

The DBI is the standard database interface module for Perl. It defines a set of methods, variables and conventions that provide a consistent database interface independent of the actual database being used.

The DBI module enables your Perl applications to access multiple database types transparently. You can connect toMySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, ODBC etc. withouthaving to know the different underlying interfaces of each.The API defined by DBI will work on all these database typesand many more. 

You can connect to multiple databases of different types at the same time and easily move data between them. The DBI layer allows you to do this simply and powerfully.

For more information see Perl DBI.