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Oracle Named Database of the Year, MongoDB Comes In Second (softpedia.com)
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.
I was wondering that too, here is how it was measured:
General interest in the system (ie, Google trends)
Frequency of technical discussions about the system.(Stackoverflow + DBA Stack Exchange)
Number of job offers, in which the system is mentioned (Job search engine Indeed and Simply Hired (I'd never heard of them))
Number of profiles in professional networks, in which the system is mentioned. (LinkedIn)
Relevance in social networks (Twitter)
They use a 'carefully tuned algorithm' to combine all those results, and get a number for each database. It really makes me wonder who in the world is using Oracle, because they are very, very far away from any company I've ever worked with.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I really tried to love MongoDB but I realized that all the freedom they claimed was freedom to structure things exactly there way and only their way. I now hate MongoDB like it is leaking sewage pipe at an Ebola hospital.
I used oracle professionally for about 8 years until I realized that things like PL/SQL didn't exist to help me structure an N-Tier system better but to just lock me into their stupid database. Oracle as a database isn't terrible so much as their pricing, and even worse, their sales people are horror shows. Pretty much if I can't install my datastore using apt-get or yum then it isn't getting installed.
I would say the only thing worse than having to deal with either of the two above poxes upon humanity would be the people who evangelize these solutions. Someday they will realize the MongoDB isn't NoSQL but HUMONGOSql. Or that PL/SQL was just a huge joke designed to waste many billions of developer's hours while making them pay for the privilage.
Until then we will just continue to use our secret MariaDB and PostgreSQL handshakes and we will just smile as the Oracle and Mongo people keep struggling in the mire not knowing that there is a great jogging path a few feet away.
Larry really needs to buy another Hawaiian island, so just in time.
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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!
lucm, indeed.
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.
So you're comparing Oracle to Sodom and Gomorrah? That's apt.
No, Oracle is rpm. It's Debian (or is it just Deb now?) that's apt.
And Sodom and Gomorrah produced salt, which has its uses...
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.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."