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Sybase ASE and Sybase SQL Anywhere are not listed, yes they are different.

If you are going to have column stores, you should have InfiniDB.

And if you are going to have SQLite, you should also list MS SQL Server Compact. MS Access is also a viable option, also DBase and Filemaker.

Clustrix and NuoDB should also be in the list if you are listing NewSQL systems like VoltDB.

I am sure there are others :S as a DBA would be interested what businesses or systems only back onto column stores without a traditional RDBMS or a modern NoACID system.



Sorry. There are hundreds of Database projects and I can see where you're coming from. I added the most popular and had a search around for some smaller ones that seem to be gaining traction. The comments should suffice otherwise.


Ask HN: Has anyone ever considered "MS Access a viable option"?


"Access, why would we need that? We already have a shared folder with all our Excel sheets"


This is true, and several of the world's biggest companies run that way. Several-hundred-megabyte spreadsheets, with VBA interfaces copy & pasted between them; can't change it because the unknown cost of breaking it is potentially greater than the known cost of hiring an entire department of people to do one database server's job :(


I freelanced once for the local VA hospital and they sure tried!




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