Many companies employ one of the many database management systems available today and choose the one that best suits their needs. Every service out there, be it a social media platform, payment app, booking service, etc., stores massive amounts of data on its server. So it's no surprise that database administrator jobs are on the rise in the IT industry, with an annual growth rate of 9%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor.
Non-SQL databases, also known as non-SQL databases, continue to see steady growth in the market. This is not surprising, given that NoSQL databases offer scalability and a cheaper entry point of investment than SQL databases.
These are some of the most popular databases:
Elasticsearch is a free and open source search and analysis engine based on Apache Lucene. Optimizes data for real-time searches and efficient results. It is a distributed, multi-tenant full-text search engine built in Java with an HTTP interface. It can process various types of data, including integers, dates, texts, maps, and float numbers, in both organized and unstructured formats.
As a Google product, Firebase Realtime Database is a big deal. This system is a cloud-based document store that supports JavaScript, Android, and iOS-based clients. Users access the most up-to-date data by connecting to a central database. Due to the cloud-based nature of Firebase Development Services, it is perfect for serverless projects. If a user cannot access the Internet, the application will save the data in a cache and then load it when the user is back online. This also implies that other hardware investments are optional to scale a project.
A corporation called “IBM” created the IBM DB2 database in 1990. The main design goal of this database was easy storage and retrieval of data. Analytical and transactional database processes are possible with IBM DB2. IBM DB2 also supports some non-SQL functions such as XML, JSON, etc. Databases such as IBM DB2 are created using DDL, which allows logical and physical structures (data definition language) to be separated.
Customers have trusted Oracle, a popular database provider, for more than four decades. When it comes to data storage and online transaction processing, it is among the top databases. Depending on consumer demands, Oracle offers hybrid, cloud and on-premise products. Relational, columnar, XML, JSON, spatial, graph and unstructured data are supported, in addition to the most popular programming languages.
The open source MariaDB database is the next big thing from the people who created MySQL; It promises to be as good as MySQL but better in every way: more secure, more scalable, more available, and built with enterprise-grade tools and services. There is quite an intriguing backstory behind MariaDB. Because it's designed as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, switching between project command lines is as easy as removing MySQL, installing MariaDB, and then running the command line again.
In 1992, Microsoft Corporation created Microsoft Access, a database management system. The Microsoft 365 office suite also includes it. This database is an amalgamation of Jet Database Engine and a pinch of GUI-enhanced software development tools. Compared to Microsoft Excel, it is much more efficient when it comes to storing and manipulating data.
The Redis database management system is open source and is published under the BSD license. The key-value pair is the foundation of Redis, a database that does not use SQL. Because the key of this database contains strings, hashes, lists, sets, and ordered sets, it is sometimes called the “Data Structure Database.” The Redis database was created using the C programming language. Redis supports two types of architecture: Redis Client and Redis Server.
You can see from this list that the creators of MongoDB are not exaggerating when they say it is the leading NoSQL solution. Of all the document-type databases, MongoDB has the largest number of users. Being schemaless means that there is no need to define the schema in advance, which is the biggest advantage as it saves a lot of work.
MongoDB does not lag. Its benchmarks are outstanding and scale is not an issue compared to similar products. You can see why it has become so popular so quickly; After all, it is an open source solution.
Except for client-server engines, this is the only relationship database management system (RDBMS) we have included here. Rather, it is typically integrated into the final application as a C library. You can get all the functions of the relational database using SQLite, but you won't need the processing power of a server. To keep track of things like preferences, history, and bookmarks, Firefox, for example, uses SQLite.
Among the many powerful and widely used services available, Microsoft SQL Server has been around since 1981. At first glance, the wide range of products that make up Microsoft SQL can be bewildering. However, like Windows, Portfolio is designed to be easy to use. A specific product can serve each customer; Determining which features is key. When it comes down to it, little is more.
Among the best-known and most actively supported open source relational databases, PostgreSQL has gradually expanded since its beginnings as Ingres, a database engine created at the University of California. The name change was an attempt at a play on words. Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID) transactions make this engine famous. It uses various smart strategies, such as multi-version concurrency control. Another advantage of PostgreSQL is that it has one of the healthiest and most helpful communities in the IT industry.
One of the most popular databases in the world, MySQL, is also open source. In 1995 this database was created. Oracle later bought MySQL in 2009. A “structured query language” is what SQL stands for. The MySQL database uses rows and columns to organize data into tables. The three-step process is how MySQL works. Security, ease of scalability, great speed, and a dedicated community that maintains and updates MySQL to this day are some of the most well-known features of MySQL. An open source and a proprietary license are available for MySQL, which is now owned by Oracle. You can choose the one that best suits your needs.
Dhanshree Shenwai is a Computer Science Engineer and has good experience in FinTech companies covering Finance, Cards & Payments and Banking with a keen interest in ai applications. He is excited to explore new technologies and advancements in today's evolving world that makes life easier for everyone.
