B.1. Enterprise Databases
There are a few heavy-hitters in the database world, including the key players in the enterprise relational database management system (RDBMS) market listed here. The following list of vendors is not intended to be comprehensive but to give an overview of the various approaches to solving the problems of a large, distributed enterprise.
B.1.1. Oracle
Historically, Oracle is the granddaddy of them all. In 1979, Oracle Corporation released the first commercially viable RDBMS, based on the work of Dr. E. F. Codd. In 1983, however, the true power and cross-platform capabilities of Oracle were evident when the source code for Oracle was rewritten in the C language, making Oracle extremely portable across any hardware and ...
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