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View Poll Results: Database of the Year
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MySQL
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373 |
58.01% |
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PostgreSQL
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110 |
17.11% |
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Firebird
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74 |
11.51% |
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sqlite
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54 |
8.40% |
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Drizzle
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0 |
0% |
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EnterpriseDB
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1 |
0.16% |
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Berkley DB
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4 |
0.62% |
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InnoDB
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0 |
0% |
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Oracle
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18 |
2.80% |
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Sybase
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0 |
0% |
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DB2
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5 |
0.78% |
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Apache Derby
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4 |
0.62% |
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01-07-2009, 12:18 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,620
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Database of the Year
Always a hotly debated topic.
--jeremy
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01-09-2009, 03:11 PM
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#2
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: India
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 1,562
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MySQL.
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01-10-2009, 02:17 AM
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#3
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Valby, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
Distribution: Slackware 14.1
Posts: 879
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Increasingly partial to Sqlite, interested in Postgres.
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01-12-2009, 06:09 PM
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#4
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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postgres, of course ;D
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01-13-2009, 08:41 AM
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#5
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Member
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: 127.0.0.1
Distribution: OpenBSD-CURRENT
Posts: 485
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PostgreSQL all the way.
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01-13-2009, 10:50 AM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: gentoo
Posts: 69
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Firebird as always
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01-13-2009, 11:00 AM
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#7
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 3,171
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sqlite has a lot of advantages, particularly for the small, standalone app.
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01-13-2009, 11:17 AM
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#8
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 2
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Firebird, yeah!!
Firebird of course  |
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01-13-2009, 11:21 AM
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#9
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Posts: 5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hitboxx
MySQL.
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*chuckles* I like things that are truly FREE and truly WORK...
But that's just me. |
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01-13-2009, 12:47 PM
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#10
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1
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Firebird too
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01-13-2009, 01:02 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 5
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Firebird three!
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01-13-2009, 03:18 PM
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#12
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1
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Firebird. Seriously. MySQL is not a database.
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01-13-2009, 05:18 PM
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#13
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 28
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Firebird! Period!
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01-13-2009, 06:25 PM
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#14
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 3
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Firebird, for sure!
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01-13-2009, 06:33 PM
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#15
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 2
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Firebird for sure !
Could be used in closed source apps
Very small footprint
DBA-free
Feature rich
Fast
Reliable
Standard Compliant
Stable
I am sure that if you give it a try you will be surprised, mainly the MySQL guys...
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