Some Popular Relational Database Vendors
July 7, 2008 SQL — Tags: Relational Database, SQL — 52coding
Some of the most predominant database vendors include Oracle, Microsoft, Informix, Sybase, and IBM. These vendors distribute various versions of the relational database for a significant cost. There are many other vendors who supply an open source version of an SQL database (relational database). Some of these vendors include MySQL, PostgresSQL, and SAP. Although there are many more vendors than those mentioned, this list includes names that you may have recognized on the bookshelf, in the newspaper, in magazines, on the stock market, or on the World Wide Web.
As each individual in this world is unique in both features and nature, so is each vendor-specific implementation of SQL. A database server is a product, like any other product on the market, manufactured by a widespread number of vendors. It is to the benefit of the vendor to ensure that its implementation is compliant with the current ANSI standard for portability and user convenience. For instance, if a company is migrating from one database server to another, it would be rather discouraging for the database users to have to learn another language to maintain functionality with the new system.
