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This database has a low footprint

Based on responses from 865 people, we've built up the following picture of how well "This database has a low footprint" describes different databases.

Top items

  1. Flat files
  2. Sqlite
  3. dbm
  4. HypergraphDB
  5. h2
  6. BerkeleyDB
  7. Redis
  8. Riak
  9. GenieDB
  10. Voldemort

Bottom items

  1. Oracle
  2. DB2
  3. MSSQL Server
  4. PostgreSQL
  5. MySQL
  6. CouchDB
  7. Tokyo Cabinet
  8. Cassandra
  9. MongoDB
  10. Sybase

Most similar to

  1. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  2. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  3. This database is very easy to get started with
  4. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  5. This database has an unusual data model

Most dissimilar from

  1. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  2. This database has a good story for replication
  3. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  4. This database is good for querying graph structures
  5. This database is very reliable

All items

  1. Flat files
  2. Sqlite
  3. dbm
  4. HypergraphDB
  5. h2
  6. BerkeleyDB
  7. Redis
  8. Riak
  9. GenieDB
  10. Voldemort
  11. SQLAnywhere
  12. Memcachedb
  13. Excel
  14. Derby
  15. Access
  16. HBase
  17. BigTable
  18. neo4j
  19. Sybase
  20. MongoDB
  21. Cassandra
  22. Tokyo Cabinet
  23. CouchDB
  24. MySQL
  25. PostgreSQL
  26. MSSQL Server
  27. DB2
  28. Oracle