Oracle XE | BigDataOnCloud + FreeDB2

Comparing Free databases: Oracle XE vs DB2 Express-C

Before I get too far in to this I’d like to get a couple of things straight:

I am biased and I actually like Oracle XE but I like DB2 Express-C more … see point 1

Now that I got this off my chest, I wanted to do a quick comparison between these two products from the two leaders in the commercial database server market. Both DB2 Express-C and Oracle XE (Express Edition) have much in common. Both are built on the same code that their very popular and at times expensive commercial counterparts are. Both can be downloaded and [...]

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Free DB2 is cheaper than MySQL … again!

How can something that is already free be cheaper? I will get to that in a minute. DB2 Express-C is IBM’s way of offering a full function commercial grade database management system using “open source business model”. DB2 is not open source i.e. you will not be able to go to SourceForge download source and hack database kernel code. What you can do though is get DB2 Express-C without paying any money and use it any which way you like including in your production applications for as long as you wish. In other words, you get the product for free and you [...]

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