As a heterogenous company, I get a lot of questions on what database platforms are important, why and if we should invest in them. When looking at some of the lists and some of the marketing, it can be a bit overwhelming. Now I’m not going to promise to take all of the confusion out of the myriad of database platforms out there, but I’m hoping to help with what’s relevant. Ranking So let’s take a look at what is in the list of top databases engines in the industry per db-engines.com. The reason I use this site as my main…
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This is a living document that I will continue to update and will add new database platforms to as I go along in my career. I spend a lot of time translating database platforms I’ve worked in for all tiers of the technical business. It just seems natural that we might need a location on the web where that information is kept. I’ll add some diagrams at a later date, but we’ll start with a simple spreadsheet of common terms and questions and how each of the terms or tasks in Oracle, (the current #1 RDBMS) translates in other platforms.…