SQL

SQL (Structure Query Language) is a language used to manage data in a relational database management system (RDBMS). Popular RDBMS’s include names like: Postgresql, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, and Microsoft SQL Server. SQL enables the user to write queries that quickly create, read, update, delete, and summarize data.

Standard SQL can be used with any of the mentioned RDBMS’s without change. With that being said, the way the RDBMS’s function can vary. For example, Postgresql has clients and servers, whereas SQLite is a single program. Additionally, most RDBMS’s have extensions that add supplementary, non-standard features, and each can have slight syntax differences.