3. Oracle
(Since 1977)
Produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation
Larry Ellison and his friends started the consultancy Software Development
Laboratories (SDL) in 1977
1979 - Oracle release 2
1983 - Oracle release 3
1984 - Oracle release 4
1985 - Oracle release 5
1988 - Oracle release 6
1992 - Oracle release 7
1997 - Oracle release 8
1998 - Oracle release 8i
2001 - Oracle release 9i
2003 - Oracle release 10g
2007 - Oracle release 11g
4. Oracle
(Now)
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer
technology corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California,
The United States.
The company specializes in developing and marketing computer
hardware systems and enterprise software products –
particularly its own brands of database management systems.
Oracle is the third-largest software maker by revenue,
after Microsoft and IBM
5. MySQL is a powerful and the most popular Open Source Software
relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses SQL
(Structured Query Language).
MySQL is named after co-founder Monty Widenius's daughter, My .
MySQL is officially pronounced "My esquel".
It is popular for web applications.
Previously, MySQL was developed, distributed, and supported by
MySQL AB then acquired by Sun Microsystems. And now since
January 2010 accquired by Oracle Corporation.
6. MySQL Development History
- MySQL was first released internally on 23 May 1995
- Windows version was released on January 8, 1998 for Windows 95 and NT
- Version 3.23 release January 2001
- Version 4.0 release March 2003
- Version 4.1 release October 2004
- Version 5.0 release October 2005
- Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL AB on 26 February 2008
- Version 5.1 release 27 November 2008
- Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems on 27 January 2010
- Version 5.5 release December 2010
- Current Generally Available Release: 5.6.10, 5 February 2013
7. ORACLE: Different Types of DB
Enterprise Edition:
Most Powerful, with a vast array of tools and features for the large corporation
Standard Edition:
Oracle SE contains the basic database management functions for small- and
medium-sized shops at a far lower cost than the EE.
Standard Edition one:
Oracle SEO is specially-priced for single CPU servers used by small businesses.
Express Edition:
Entry-level, small-footprint database to develop, deploy, and distribute.
8. Different Types of DB
MySQL Community Server
MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open
source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and
enthusiasts.
MySQL Enterprise Edition
Commercial customers have the flexibility of choosing from multiple MySQL Editions to meet
specific business and technical requirements.
Difference between the community edition and the enterprise edition is
added support and tools. The server itself is the same, but the enterprise
edition gets updated more frequently and it is stable with quick bug fix
support.
MySQL is used in many high-profile, large-scale World Wide Web
products, including Wikipedia,Google(though not for searches),
Facebook,Twitter,Flickr,Nokia.com and YouTube.
9. Oracle versus MySQL Features/Functionality
Sr. Features/ Oracle MySQL
No. Functionality
1 Strengths Aircraft carrier database Price/Performance Great
capable of running large performance when
OLTP and VLDBs. applications leverage
architecture.
2 Database Enterprise ($$$$) Enterprise ($) – supported,
Products Standard ($$) more stable.
Standard One ($) Community (free)
Express (Free) - up to 4GB
3 Application More you do in the database Web applications often don’t
Perspective the more you will love Oracle leverage database server
with compiled PL/SQL, XML, functionality. Web apps more
APEX, Java, etc. concerned with fast reads.
4 Administration Requires lots of in-depth Can be trivial to get it setup
knowledge and skill to and running. Large and
manage large advanced configurations can
environments. Can get get complex.
extremely complex but also
very powerful.
10. Oracle versus MySQL Features/Functionality
Sr. No. Features/ Oracle MySQL
Functionality
5 Popularity Extremely popular in Fortune 100, Extremely popular with web
medium/large enterprise business companies, startups,
applications and medium/large data small/medium businesses,
warehouses. small/medium projects.
6 Application Medium/Large OLTP and enterprise Web (MySQL excels)
Domains applications. Oracle excels in large Data Warehouse
business applications. Gaming
Medium/Large data warehouse Small/media OLTP
environmnets
7 Development 1) Java 1) PHP
Environments 2) .NET 2) JAVA
(most common) 3) APEX 3) Ruby on Rails
4) Ruby on Rails 4) .NET
5) PHP 5) Perl
8 Database Database instance has numerous Database Instance stores
Server background processes dependent on global memory in mysqld
(Instance) configuration. System Global Area is background process.
shared memory for SMON, PMON, User sessions are managed
DBWR, LGWR, ARCH, RECO, through threads.
etc.Sessions are managed through
server processes.
11. Oracle versus MySQL Features/Functionality
Sr. No. Features/ Oracle MySQL
Functionality
9 Database Server Uses tablespaces for system Made up of database
metadata, user data and schemas.
indexes. Common tablespaces
include:
10 Partitioning $$$ with lots of options Free, basic features
11 Replication $$$, lots of features and Free, relatively easy to
options. Much higher setup and
complexity with a lot of manage. Basic features
features. Allows a lot of data but works great. Great
filtering and manipulation. horizontal scalability.
12 Transactions Regular and Index only tables InnoDB and upcoming
support transactions. Falcon and Maria
storage engines
13 Backup/Recovery Recovery Manager (RMAN) No online backup built-
supports hot backups and runs in.
as a separate central repository
for multiple Oracle database
servers.
12. Oracle versus MySQL Features/Functionality
Sr. No. Features/ Oracle MySQL
Functionality
14 Export/Import More features. Easy, very basic.
15 Data Dictionary Data dictionary offers lots of detailed Information_schema and
(catalog) information for tuning. Oracle mysql database schemas
starting to charge for use of new offer basic metadata.
metadata structures.
16 Management/Monit $$$$, Grid Control offers lots of $, MySQL Enterprise
oring functionality. Lots of 3rd party Monitor offers basic
options such as Quest. functionality. Additional open
source solutions. May also
use admin scripts.
17 Storage Tables managed in Each storage engine uses
tablespaces. ASM offers striping different storage. Varies from
and mirroring using cheap fast disks. individual files to
tablespaces.
18 Stored Procedures Advanced features, runs interpreted Very basic features, runs
or compiled. Lots of built in interpreted in session
packages add significant threads. Limited scalability.
functionality. Extremely scalable.
13. Summary
ORACLE
Very Powerful DB Good / ok Performance
For OLTP, VLDBs For Web, Small-Mid Appl.
Price: $$$$ Price: 0 to $
Ease of Use: Many Features Ease of Use: Limited Features
Performance: Very High Performance: Good / Ok