{"id":545,"date":"2008-04-11T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2008-04-11T07:00:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T15:00:44","slug":"oracle-a-clean-sweep-across-rdbmss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/oracle-a-clean-sweep-across-rdbmss\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle: A Clean Sweep Across RDBMS&#039;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1470 developers and IT managers at the end of 2007 voted Oracle the best database  across 13 different categories.  <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Evans Data\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evansdata.com\/\">Evans Data<\/a> said that in 23 years of doing this survey never has one vendor been voted number one in all categories.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Informationweek report on Evans Data Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901483\">Five databases were considered,<\/a> two Open Source (MySQL and PostgreSQL), and the rest commercial.  <span id=\"articleBody\">Oracle topped the others with a score of 2,500; DB2, had 2,200; SQL Server, 2,000; MySQL, 1,800; Informix, 1,775; PostgreSQL, 1,750; Sybase, 1,600.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The features\/categories that were considered included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Performance (speed)<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Security<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Scalability<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Atomicity<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Consistency<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Isolation of transactions<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Durability of transactions<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Quality of data modeling tools<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Support for XML<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Multi platform support<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Quality of management tools<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Quality of available third party management tools<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmarginbottom\">Programming language support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is interesting to note that in two categories, performance and multi-platform support, MySQL beat out SQL Server.  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