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Open Source Database Use in Oracle Shops

The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) sponsored a study on open source database use in Oracle shops in September. I referenced some of their information in my open source BI/DW courses to show what I believe to be some of the issues preventing open source database adoption for data warehousing.

The study showed that most (81%) OSS databases were less than 50GB in size, but there were a handful in the 1-2T B size. Only 12% of respondents use OSS databases for data warehousing.

One of the things I've often wondered is whether the "express" databases from Oracle and IBM are effective at containing OSS databases. According to the survey (page 12) the answer is "no" . If you think about using an "express" database with a production application, you have both technical and cost considerations should you choose to do a broader deployment. If you start with open source you don't face the same limitations, so I would expect OSS to continue to erode share at the lower end as well as capturing more new application development done inside IT.

Check out the study for yourself. It isn't specific to data warehousing and has some interesting information about other areas like adoption trends, application and application server use.

  Posted by mmadsen on December 6, 2007 5:46 PM |

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