Which RDBMS do you feel best suits the needs of today's climate of rapid change and iteration?

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SQLite8%

CouchDB16%

PostgreSQL28%

MongoDB28%

SQLServer17%

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SVP - Global Technology Services in Travel and Hospitality2 years ago

It all depends of the use cases harder to answer without that.

VP of Engineering in Banking3 years ago

MongoDB and CouchDB are not RDBMS. Not sure the intention of the question is.

Chief Information Technology Officer in Finance (non-banking)4 years ago

SQLServer carries over a considerable number of legacy apps and code on it, but many of the others are more suitable for RD. Surprised not seeing mySQL on the list...

Director & Head of Engineering in Software4 years ago

I think DB's planet scale can offer a different view on RDBMS usage.

Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer4 years ago

I had trouble pointing one database. Some are relational, some are document databases. It's like comparing a hammer and a screwdriver, which is better? When comparing databases agnostically of the purpose, then I'd choose security, performance, scalability, and availability as the main parameters.

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