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Full-featured SQL Server. Is ACID<ref name="acid">a</ref>-compliant. Needs more maintenance than MySQL.
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[http://sql-info.de/postgresql/postgres-gotchas.html PostgresSQL gotchas]
== Oracle ==
== Oracle ==

Revision as of 00:38, 25 May 2006

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SQL

MySQL

Database that has a SQL interface. Claims to be ACID[1]-compliant; tries hard to. Same story as with PHP: Large availability, everybody uses it, hardly the best choice.

Food for thought:

PostgresSQL

Full-featured SQL Server. Is ACID[1]-compliant. Needs more maintenance than MySQL.

Food for thought:

PostgresSQL gotchas

Oracle

The commercial behemoth.

LDAP

LDAP systems are like Databases too - often they build on a generic database and provide a more specialised view.


Footnotes

  1. 1.1 1.2 Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability. See The ACID model
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