Persistence is a corner stone of all computer applications. The approach to persistence in an application **should** carry lot more weight than the frameworks that are normally used to display or manipulate that data. Persistence and Databases takes a new precedence with web where a variety of databases can all of a sudden open up new alleys to programability over the web.
This trend is evident in a number of multi-tenanted cloud based systems such as Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics or Parse.
As a web developer these database are important to me because I salivate what can be done with each the strengths that each database bring to the table to push the programmable web by end users.
The goal is no longer where one database rules it all. Bring the diversity and exploit each for their strengths through the cloud.
satya - 8/6/2013 9:32:21 AM
The link above lists all databases ranked by their use
The link above lists all databases ranked by their use
satya - 8/6/2013 9:32:37 AM
There are about 156 of those
There are about 156 of those
satya - 8/6/2013 9:33:36 AM
Top 10
oracle
sql server
mysql
postgresql
db2
mongodb
access
sybase
sqlite
teradata
satya - 8/6/2013 9:36:11 AM
Keyvalue stores
Redis
memcached
riak
encache
dynamo db
simpledb
berkelydb
oracle nosql
satya - 8/6/2013 9:37:43 AM
wide column or bigtable like
cassandra
hbase
accumulo
hypertable
satya - 8/6/2013 9:38:47 AM
Document stores
Mongodb
couchdb
couchbase
Ravendb
satya - 8/6/2013 9:39:17 AM
Graph databases
Neo4J
Orient DB
satya - 8/6/2013 9:40:05 AM
RDF stores
Jena
Sesame
Redland
AllegroGraph
satya - 8/6/2013 9:40:54 AM
XML databases
Marklogic
Sedna
Tamino