With the intensive study of human action recognition at home and abroad, the researchers establish corresponding database for storing a large amount of collected data of human action, to satisfy the need of flexibility and convenience of data management and usage. It can be help their obtaining various data from the database to meet the need of recognition algorithms and analyzing differences between the data. This paper introduces the application of several typical human action database s , and the ir respective funct ional and structural featu res of these databases. It also classified the database in accordance with the functions and characteristics, and elaborated the similarities and differences between the database s . At the end of the paper, it discusses current pro blems and development trend of the human action database, and presents and summarizes a method of human action data management.