Excel

Based on 1343 responses from 228 people, we've built up the following picture of Excel

Ranked high for:

  1. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  2. This database is very easy to get started with
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. This database has an unusual data model
  5. This database has a low footprint
  6. This database has a very restrictive data model
  7. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  8. This database can be a bit arcane
  9. I am familiar with this database
  10. There are good commercial tools for working with this database

Ranked low for:

  1. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  2. This database is highly scalable
  3. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  4. This database has very good read performance
  5. This database has very good write performance
  6. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  7. This database has a good story for replication
  8. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  9. This database is very reliable
  10. There are good open source tools for working with this database

Most similar to

  1. Access
  2. dbm
  3. Derby
  4. h2
  5. Sqlite

Most dissimilar from

  1. kdb
  2. Phoenix
  3. Cassandra
  4. Oracle
  5. MongoDB

All statements

  1. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  2. This database is very easy to get started with
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. This database has an unusual data model
  5. This database has a low footprint
  6. This database has a very restrictive data model
  7. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  8. This database can be a bit arcane
  9. I am familiar with this database
  10. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  11. This database has a good community around it
  12. This database has a very flexible data model
  13. This database is good for querying graph structures
  14. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  15. This database is good for querying time series
  16. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  17. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  18. This database is very reliable
  19. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  20. This database has a good story for replication
  21. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  22. This database has very good write performance
  23. This database has very good read performance
  24. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  25. This database is highly scalable
  26. This database is good at high concurrency reads