The Database Market Presented to the class of BA 471 May, 2006 Dr. Rene Reitsma Amy Miller ● Elaina Reinhard ● Shannon Wegner

Major Players Oracle 41.3% IBM 30.6% Microsoft 13.4% Database Market Share Source: IDC 2004

Oracle – IBM – Microsoft Oracle –Among the worlds largest enterprise software companies –Oracle Database 10g Release 2 IBM –Well diversified product portfolio –DB2 Microsoft –Microsoft SQL Server –Competes on Price

Industry Strengths What makes a DB industry strong? –Scalability –Speed –Backup & Recovery –Security

Industry Strengths: Scalability Ability to process and handle large volumes of transactions Is it scalable? –Scale up or scale out Consider performance, number of users, location of users

Industry Strengths: Speed High number of transactions per unit of time –Product or server itself –DB design quality –Drive speed –Query Optimizer

Industry Strengths: Backup & Recovery Challenges –Cold vs. Hot Backup 24 hours per day DB Administrators –Why are they needed? –Outsourcing

Industry Strengths: Security An obvious concern Security features: –Authentication –Authorization

What’s Wrong with Access? ‘Not scalable’ Slow Inferior security However: –Likely to be available and supported for years to come –Most widely used desktop database system globally

Open Source DB Systems Postgre SQL (standard query language) My SQL –Used by travel agencies, manufacturing agencies, Google, SAP, etc. –Many traditional database systems are becoming, or are already available on open source OS (e.g. Oracle, DB2, Sybase IQ)

Trends Why is there a trend toward open source systems? –Expired patents –Cost savings Why are some businesses sticking with IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft –Brand equity –High switching costs

MySQL and SAP What is SAP? SAP + MySQL = MAX DB –Benefits for MySQL –Implementations to MySQL 5.1

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