subject: Find Out Best Database Management System In The Market [print this page] In most competitive era it is difficult to give certificate as best one to any one product. Same cases happen with database software systems too. MS Access, Sybase, SQL Server and Oracle all are the best in specific area. Oracle has many advantages and a feature that makes it globally accepted and so makes it as one of the world's largest enterprise software company. Oracle comes with new versions with new features implemented in new version while the features of earlier versions still being maintained. One important aspect is Oracle databases tend to be backwards compatible. Also when Oracle releases a new version, its documentation contains a list of all the features new to that version thus makes it user friendly.
Oracle database system software is used for almost all large application and one of the main applications in which oracle takes its major presence is banking and manufacturing. That why most of the worlds top banks and manufacturing run Oracle applications this is because oracle recommend a powerful combination of technology and complete, pre-integrated business applications.
Some similar databases system software like Sybase, SQL-Server one have conveniences for using loops, conditions, arrays and so on in a program and also facilities like cursors but all these operation would be used in a complicated manner which are very slow and resource consuming operations. But in case of Oracle database loops, conditions, arrays which is most efficiently implemented. That is why many IT professional consider Oracle as best database software system, though many database experts categorically explain that SQL Server is very user friendly.
Also with the features available in oracle database with the earlier versions in market the oracle corporation keeps improvement and releasing new products into market, new versions releases which serves better than the earlier versions and thus the performance is improved much in later versions and thereby retaining the market growth and thus establish bigger contentment to the customers using this database technology. Thus the advantage of a higher version is that one would have more features and better capabilities. For instance Oracle 8i new features which helped users on partitioning to support large database and so on.
