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https://yourlabs.org/posts/2019-04-19-storing-hd-photos-in-a-relational-database-recipe-for-an-epic-fail/https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/150669/is-it-a-bad-practice-to-store-large-files-10-mb-in-a-databasehttps://www.brentozar.com/archive/2021/07/store-files-in-a-file-system-not-a-relational-database/See https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E10405_01/appdev.120/e10379/ss_oracle_compared.htm for a good description of some of the key differences between Oracle and MS-SQL when considering porting an application from one to the other. Pay particular attention to the differences in Locking and Transaction Handling.
Enterprise Edition
Standard Edition
Developer Edition
Express Edition
Compact Edition - this is the Microsoft equivalent of SQLite - it is free to distribute and use.
See https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E10405_01/appdev.120/e10379/ss_oracle_compared.htm for a good description of some of the key differences between Oracle and MS-SQL when considering porting an application from one to the other. Pay particular attention to the differences in Locking and Transaction Handling.
A Data Warehouse tends to be a large database designed to hold a collection of data sourced from multiple source databases.
A Data Lake is similar but tends to hold the data in a less structured format (e.g. flat files instead of relational tables).
An elastic near-zero maintenance data warehouse platform across any cloud.
The company was set up by ex Oracle employees and is currently generating a lot of buzz.
Cassandra
CosmosDB (via Cassandra API)
FlockDB
Neo4j
RedisGraph
OrientDB
CosmosDB (via Gremlin API)
Apache Derby (formerly IBM Cloudscape) is a small footprint RDBMS that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing. It supports JDBC and IBM DB2 SQL syntax.
Oracle Berkeley DB is a family of embedded key-value database libraries.
JSON
Large eCommerce platforms (Like Amazon)
Blogging sites (such as Twitter)
Content management systems (WordPress, windows registry)
Analytical platforms
MongoDB
Elasticsearch
CouchDB
BaseX
MySQL Enterprise Edition
Oracle
User preferences and profile stores
Large scale session management for users
Product recommendations (such as in eCommerce platforms)
Customized ad delivery to users based on their data profile
Data cache for rarely updated data
Amazon DynamoDB
Aerospike
Berkeley DB
Couchbase
Memcached
Riak
Redis
Valkey