Typically, open source DBMS products - MySQL, Firebird, PostgreSQL, and Berkeley DB - are simpler to use than enterprise DBMS products because they do not have all the bells and whistles of enterprise ...

A Database Management System (DBMS) is a software package designed to create, store, and manage databases. The DBMS software enables users to share data. It provides a systematic method of creating, ...

If there’s one central theme to my blog DBMS2, it’s that modern DBMS alternatives should in many cases be used instead of the traditional market leaders. So it was only a matter of time before ...

They should not be used for serious DBMS applications. InnoDB, the usual transactional storage engine for MySQL, is of dubious scalability. What’s more, it’s now owned by Oracle.