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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

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

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

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

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

13. Questions?

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