The Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply as Oracle) is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.  Larry Ellison and his friends, former co-workers Bob Miner and Ed Oates, started the… Read more ›

MySQL (“My Sequel”) is (as of 2008) the world’s most used open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after co-founder Michael Widenius’ daughter, My. The… Read more ›

NoSQL DEFINITION: Next Generation Databases mostly address some of the points: being non-relational, distributed, open-source and horizontally scalable. The original intention has been modern web-scale databases. The movement began early 2009 and is growing rapidly. Often more characteristics apply such… Read more ›