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Oracle Named Database of the Year, MongoDB Comes In Second (softpedia.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the headlines-from-a-parallel-universe dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Oracle's database management system has seen the biggest rise in terms of popularity in the past year. Oracle didn't only see a rise in the number of deployed instances, job offerings and mentions on LinkedIn profiles, but for the first time also became a popular topic on Twitter and a constant mention on StackOverflow, a popular Q&A support forum for developers. Second on DB-Engine's popularity list was MongoDB, which barely missed winning the DBMS of the Year award for the third time in a row.

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  1. Database of the year? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So the biggest increase in popularity is the only factor? If someone makes a new DB that increases 10000% in users, does it win? Because you'd only need 100 users to accomplish that.

    1. Re:Database of the year? by Nemyst · · Score: 3, Insightful

      So in essence it breaks often or is very obtuse, requiring lots of Google searches and questions on Stack sites, it's used as a buzzword by HR and they spam about it a lot.

      Great, that's completely representative of actual usage.

    2. Re:Database of the year? by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Who in the world is using Oracle?? I'm an IT consultant, I work with a lot of Fortune 500 companies,

      BTW the Fortune 500 is not a good sample for database popularity.......even if every single one of them used Oracle (and most of them probably use more than one database in various places), it would still only be 500 installations. The Fortune 500 are looked at because they are big, not because they are representative of what most companies are doing.

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  2. Larry Ellison by slazzy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Larry really needs to buy another Hawaiian island, so just in time.

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  3. Oracle is bleeding-edge by lucm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oracle 12g now supports multiple databases on the same server instance! Amazing breakthrough in database science, coming just a few years after their latest innovation: case insensitive LIKE.

    Of course multiple databases per server instance has been available in SQL Server since the time it was still Sybase and in MySQL since before Y2K. But those are not Enteprise Worthy Databases of course so it doesn't count, and the fact that on SQL Server there's no additional expensive license to enable this feature is all the evidence we need. ORACLE RULES!

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    lucm, indeed.