Favorite Relational Database

Last week we conducted a small research in the form of a poll: "What is your favorite RDBMS?". The poll received more responses than anticipated – a little bit over 900 votes were submitted. The topic in question can induce flame wars, but this time it passed without major incidents. There were several attempts to vote for MongoDB, which is not a relational database management system, so we had to remove it from results. MongoDB is often considered a contentious subject when speaking in context of relational databases. To put in redditor's day_cq sarcastic words:

"mongodb all the way. full web scale power. i think mongodb should be written in nodejs to take advantage of event driven nature of fast web scale loop. and gruntjs and lessc and uglifyjs adds full power to angulrjs real time web scale RDBMS."

If you don't see a chart below, please view it here: Favorite relational database management system. Full results are shared publicly and we would like to invite you to create your own representation of the data.



Thank you all for participating!

Update: Tyson Hollas has submitted a better representation of the data. See the chart below.

Poll: What is Your RDBMS of Choice?

We have created a new poll to learn your favorite relational database management systems.

Poll: What is Your RDBMS of Choice?

Voting ends on Friday and results will be published soon after that in Database Friends blog. Stay tuned!

NeDB - Embedded datastore for node.js

NeDB

NeDB is embedded persistent database for Node.js, written in Javascript, with no dependency (except npm modules of course). You can think of it as a SQLite for Node.js projects, which can be used with a simplerequire statement. The API is a subset of MongoDB's. You can use it as a persistent or an in-memory only datastore.

NeDB is not intended to be a replacement of large-scale databases such as MongoDB! Its goal is to provide you with a clean and easy way to query data and persist it to disk, for web applications that do not need lots of concurrent connections, for example a continuous integration and deployment server and desktop applications built with Node Webkit.

NeDB | GitHub