From the course: Learning Relational Databases
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Get to know your RDBMS options
From the course: Learning Relational Databases
Get to know your RDBMS options
- [Instructor] Relational database management systems come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes to suit a wide variety of uses. There are a lot of solutions on the market today and each one has its advantages and disadvantages. I'm not going to go into a lengthy comparison of every available system here, but I do think it's important to hit on some of the major players in the space so that you have a basic familiarity with their names. The systems available can generally be broken down into two categories: those that run on a large server environment and smaller databases designed to run on your computer's desktop. The server variety tend to be more robust and are able to handle more simultaneous users and are capable of faster reads and writes to the underlying data tables. Some of the major players in this space include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM's DB2, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. PostgreSQL and MySQL are both open source projects which are free to install and use. MySQL…
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