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This database can be a bit arcane

Based on responses from 840 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This database can be a bit arcane" describes different databases.

Top items

  1. DB2
  2. Oracle
  3. Excel
  4. BerkeleyDB
  5. Derby
  6. Voldemort
  7. Flat files
  8. neo4j
  9. Access
  10. Sybase

Bottom items

  1. Redis
  2. Sqlite
  3. HBase
  4. MongoDB
  5. PostgreSQL
  6. GenieDB
  7. Memcachedb
  8. Tokyo Cabinet
  9. kdb
  10. Cassandra

Most similar to

  1. This database has a very restrictive data model
  2. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. This database is very reliable
  5. This database is good for querying graph structures

Most dissimilar from

  1. This database has a good community around it
  2. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  3. This database is very easy to get started with
  4. This database has a very flexible data model
  5. This database is good for querying time series

All items

  1. DB2
  2. Oracle
  3. Excel
  4. BerkeleyDB
  5. Derby
  6. Voldemort
  7. Flat files
  8. neo4j
  9. Access
  10. Sybase
  11. Riak
  12. SQLAnywhere
  13. BigTable
  14. dbm
  15. MSSQL Server
  16. HypergraphDB
  17. h2
  18. MySQL
  19. CouchDB
  20. Cassandra
  21. kdb
  22. Tokyo Cabinet
  23. Memcachedb
  24. GenieDB
  25. PostgreSQL
  26. MongoDB
  27. HBase
  28. Sqlite
  29. Redis