什么是典型的API或标准与数据库一起使用？ （关系，对象和Nosql）

Iam trying to make a comparsion table of some database features focused on databases that can be used as embedded (in process databases) with Java. I would like to have there a field with APIs that are usually supported by those dbs but i dont know what exactly to search for. Iam trying to make a comparsion table of some d