SQL Database Servers
According to my knowledge following is a list of well known database servers.
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL server is a well known SQL Server Databse. MSSQL Server is only available on windows platforms, so you can't run it on platforms like Linux or one of the BSD Unixes, or a the much more scalable commercial Unixes.
Advantages: Best GUI availalbe, Runs on Windows Platform, Faster, Easy integration with asp.net
Disadvantages: Expensive Hosting, Not available on Linux - Unix Platforms
mYSQL Database Server
MySQL Enterprise Server software is reliable, secure and up-to-date version of MySQL for cost-effectively delivering E-commerce, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), and multi-terabyte Data Warehousing applications. It is a fully integrated transaction-safe, ACID compliant database with full commit, rollback, crash recovery and row level locking capabilities. MySQL delivers the ease of use, scalability, and performance that has made it MySQL the world’s most popular open source database.
Advantages: Open-Source, Free Version, runs on Linux and Windows Both, Faster, Easy integration with php
DisAdvantages: Difficult to get free version Support, Less GUI compared to MSSQL DB
PostGre SQL Database Server PostgreSQL is the highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. The PostgreSQL relational database system (RDBMS) came from the POSTGRES project at the University of California at Berkley. It runs primarily on Unix-Like systems, but an NT version is also available.
Advantages: Open-Source, Free version, very fast
DisAdvantages: Limited user group, GUI
Oracle Oracle is a very popular, fast and secure database in the industry. Industry claims that oracle is the fastest, most secure database availalbe in the market. It runs on linux and unile-like platforms.
Advantages: Fast, secure, scalable, Runs on Windows + Linux environments
DisAdvantages: Very Costly
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