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Database Market
By Christina Cliburn
Jeremy Henkel
Steve Lewis
Michael Vandehey
Overview
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Why Do We Need Industry Strength
Databases?
Who Are The Major Players In The
Database Market?
What are the products put out by
those players?
Why Access Won’t Cut It
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Scalability: The ability of a system to
handle increased volume or
complexity.
• Needs to be fast and reliable
• Need specially designed software
• Needs to minimize complexity for ease
of use
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Speed
• Stability
Why Access Won’t Cut It
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Back-up and recovery
• Enables user to recover a damaged
database
• Simple Recovery Model
Why Access Won’t Cut It?
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Hot Vs. Cold Back Up
• A cold back up means the database
server goes down and the comes back
up.
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Possibility of missed transactions, pile up
• A hot back up entails backing up the
system while the system is running.
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Industrial strength databases include redo
logs that store on different disks than data
Oracle Company Overview
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Founded 30 years ago by Larry
Ellison
World’s leading supplier of software
for information management
World’s second largest independent
software company
Strategy: Solving customer problems
through innovation
Product Portfolio
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Oracle’s main focus is databases and
database applications.
Generated revenue from databases
for the 2005 fiscal year = 48,537
million
This is 70% of their product
portfolio!
Oracle Product Overview
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Database 10g Enterprise Edition
• Designed for multiple or single server
applications
• Protects from server failure, human error, and
reduces planned downtime
• Industry leading security, including address
privacy and data consolidation requirements
• Lowers cost with self managing database,
enabling companies to focus on strategic
objectives
• Cost = $40,000
Oracle Product Overview
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Standard Database Edition
• Ideal for medium sized businesses
• Low maintenance costs (easy
installation)
• Low cost entry
• Proven performance and reliability
• Cost = $15,000
IBM Company Overview
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Incorporated on June 15, 1911.
Samuel J. Palmisano current CEO &
Chairman of the Board.
World’s leading supplier of
Supercomputers.
• #1 & #2 fastest computers in the world,
the Blue Gene performing at 367 teraflops.
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Over 329,000 employees.
Revenue of $96.3 billion.
Informix Family of Products
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Informix Dynamic Server (IDS)
Informix Dynamic Server Express
• From $2,000 to $50,000
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Informix Extended Parallel Server
• Start at $56,000
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IBM Red Brick Warehouse
• From $25,000 to $50,000
IBM’s DB2
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Supports a wide variety of popular
platforms and key standards
Ability to handle millions of
transactions or many terabytes of
data
Price: Over $33,000 for the server
and then almost $1,000 for user
licenses (prices do include 1 year of support)
Microsoft
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Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates
World wide leader in Software,
services, and solutions to help people
reach their full potential.
Mission: help people and businesses
throughout the world realize their full
potential.
Revenues of $40 billion
Product: SQL Server 2005 “yukon”
SQL Server 2005
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Scalability
• Unlimited amount of space
• Windows operating system required
• 64 - bit support
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Back-up and Recovery
• Reconnect to a recovering database
after the transaction log has been rolled
forward
• Hot back-up Capability
Features
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Business Intelligence Platform
Advanced Security Tools
Leading Performance
Application Availability
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Cost
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• Processor: Free - $25,000
• Server plus user: Free - $14,000
Other Solutions
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MySQL
• By MySQL AB
• Market Database servers and tools
• Founded by two Swedes and a Finn in the 80’s
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Sybase IQ
• By Sybase
• Global enterprise software company with an emphasis in
information management
• Founded in 1984
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Ingres 2006
• By Ingres Corporation
• A new company formed in a partnership with Computer
Associates and Garnett & Helfrich Capital
• Specialize in Open Source Databases
MySQL
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Scalability
• Used on multiple Operating systems
• Handles large databases.
• Open Source
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Back-up and Recovery
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Auto-Restart/Recovery
Backup and Point-in-Time Recovery
Hot-back up capability
Price
• Free without Support
• With Support $595/Server/year
Sybase IQ
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Scalability
• Offers near-linear user and data scalability to support
thousands of users and terabytes of data
• Uses sophisticated compression algorithms that reduce
the volume of data to be stored by up to 70 percent
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Speed
• Delivers ad hoc query performance up to 100 times
faster than traditional Relational databases
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Price
• $30,000/CPU
Ingres 2006
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Scalability
• Multiple platform support
• 64-bit architecture support for large-scale enterprise
deployments
• Open Source
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Back-up recovery
• Ability to backup data online or offline and customize recovery
process
• Transaction Journaling providing Point-in-Time Recovery
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Speed
• Parallel Query Support allows complex queries to be executed
in parallel
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Price:
Free under GPLversion 2
Conclusion
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We need industrial strength databases because
they provide us with the scalability, speed, and
back up and recovery systems that companies
need to process the enormous amounts of data
collected every day.
The major players include Oracle, Microsoft, and
IBM.
The major products include Oracle’s 10g
Enterprise Edition Database, Microsoft’s SQL
Server and IBM’s Informix and DB2.
The Minor products are MySQL, Sybase IQ, and
Ingres 2006. However MySQL is gaining
popularity