Thursday, December 18, 2014

A bottle of DB reliever

I don’t know about you, but trying to decide what technologies to use is beginning to feel like trying to choose a pain reliever: countless choices and a ton of small print. But when you think about it, it’s actually worse. Unlike pain reliever brands that tend to stick around year after year, many technologies don’t.

So in a new world liberated from the tyranny of expensive database technologies but buried in choices that will live or die depending on where the tech fashion winds blow, which do you choose?

I found this site particularly helpful for getting the big picture because it not only provides a survey of what’s out there but categorizes and ranks them based on popularity. This way I can survey the different categories of database engines, learn more about the players, and see how they’re popularity is trending.

Then I only have to dig into the small print on a few bottles before heading over to toothpaste...