Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases

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Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases
Jul 14, 2009

Market researcher Forrester Research investigated the suitability of
database systems for enterprise deployment and found that the Ingres
and MySQl alternatives take the lead positions after IBM, Oracle and
Microsoft.

The Forrester study has the market giants IBM, Microsoft and Oracle with
88% of the share in enterprise databases. They found their lead to be
due mainly to high performance, availability and scalability.

Second place finishers were cost beneficial offerings from Computer
Associates, Software AG and Sybase. Current competition also comes from
IBM Informatix and open source products Ingres and MySQL, which
Forrester considers appropriate for the small to medium size enterprise
market.

The U.S. marketing firm praises Ingres as the open source database with
the best enterprise features, even when it isn't the best known. Its
optimal deployment is for less than 1 TByte databases with maximum a
thousand concurrent users. Unfortunately only a few ready-made
applications have Ingres.

The study has MySQL with open-minded features, even compared to the
proprietary products. Forrester also points to its large user
community. MySQL works best for databases up to 1 TByte. Many
applications support the open source database, although some important
ones such as Peoplesoft, SAP and Siebel still do not.

In comparison, PostgreSQL might have the largest developer community,
but has hardly any distribution among vendors. In Forrester's view it
lacks the availability, security and performance qualities of
enterprise class databases.

The market firm based their study on 150 criteria and a sample of 21
manufacturers and corporate clients. The study is available as a free
25-page PDF after registration at Ingres. Forrester Research claims
that the study is independent of, and was not commissioned by, Ingres.
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Yeah. PostgreSQl lacks «availability, security and performance qualities
of enterprise class databases» which MySQL obviously has.

Whoever inventented this bullshit must have been paid a serious amount
of money from somewhere.
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Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009
Me And My Database: http://solumslekt.org/blog/