databases

Rank

dbm vs Oracle

  1. This database has a low footprint

    85% 15%
    dbm 6 out of 7 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  2. This database is good at high concurrency reads

    83% 17%
    dbm 5 out of 6 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  3. This database is very easy to get started with

    80% 20%
    dbm 4 out of 5 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  4. This database is good for performing many small operations on data

    75% 25%
    dbm 6 out of 8 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  5. There are good open source tools for working with this database

    71% 29%
    dbm 5 out of 7 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  6. This database has a very restrictive data model

    71% 29%
    dbm 5 out of 7 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  7. This database has very good read performance

    62% 38%
    dbm 5 out of 8 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  8. This database is good at high concurrency writes

    60% 40%
    dbm 3 out of 5 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  9. This database would be good for embedding in an application

    57% 43%
    dbm 4 out of 7 picked dbm over Oracle Oracle

  10. This database can be a bit arcane

    50% 50%
    dbm 3 out of 6 each for Oracle and dbm Oracle

  11. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database

    50% 50%
    dbm 3 out of 6 each for Oracle and dbm Oracle

  12. This database has a good community around it

    42% 58%
    dbm 4 out of 7 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  13. This database has a very flexible data model

    42% 58%
    dbm 4 out of 7 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  14. This database has very good write performance

    42% 58%
    dbm 4 out of 7 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  15. This database has an unusual data model

    42% 58%
    dbm 4 out of 7 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  16. This database is good for querying graph structures

    40% 60%
    dbm 3 out of 5 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  17. I am familiar with this database

    36% 64%
    dbm 24 out of 38 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  18. This database is very reliable

    33% 67%
    dbm 6 out of 9 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  19. This database is highly scalable

    28% 72%
    dbm 5 out of 7 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  20. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database

    19% 81%
    dbm 4 out of 5 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  21. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data

    16% 84%
    dbm 5 out of 6 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  22. This database has a good story for replication

    14% 86%
    dbm 6 out of 7 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

  23. There are good commercial tools for working with this database

    100%
    dbm 4 out of 4 picked Oracle over dbm Oracle

What's going on here?

The absolute rankings are interesting for large scale comparisons but when you want to know about two specific languages it's much more informative to look at how the two fare when they go directly head to head.

Here are all the statements which we've got enough comparisons between dbm and Oracle to be meaningful and which of the two our users picked.

The order in which we're presenting them is a little arbitrary (sorry), but we've tried to put the things which they're both good at first so as to give you the most interesting picture of it.