What is an open source database?

An open source database is any database application with a codebase that is free to view, download, modify, distribute, and reuse. Open source licenses give developers the freedom to build new applications off of existing database technologies.

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Q: Relational vs. Non-relational (NoSQL) databases

Databases can be broadly categorized into two groups: Relational databases: The traditional data storage architecture for storing structured data. Key value pairs are used to store information into tables consisting of columns and rows. Database queries are conducted using SQL. Non-relational (NoSQL) databases: An alternative data storage architecture well suited to storing unstructured data. Document data stores, column-oriented databases, key-value stores and graph databases are all examples of NoSQL databases. While many of these NoSQL databases technically support SQL-compatible queries, the underlying query strategy is fundamentally different.

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Improve application performance and optimise open source database operations. Pure solutions help you easily store, protect, manage, access, and scale your data.

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Deliver superior application performance with low latency, 99.9999% uptime, and an all-flash NVMe architecture. Protect business continuity and mission-critical data. Scale open source database operations, eliminate data gravity and protect mission-critical data.

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Improve your energy efficiency by planning for future performance and Oracle storage capacity needs with Pure1®, the AI-driven SaaS management platform provided, at no additional charge. Avoid common DAS overprovisioning issues for open source projects. Right-size your storage capacity allocation with the Pure1 Meta® AI-driven workload planner.

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Open Source Databases Resources

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Protecting Mission-critical PostgreSQL Applications

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Simplify Data Storage for Your Open Source Databases

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Data Gravity - The Ever-growing Data Management Challenge

21 pages

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Secure Mission-critical Data for PostgreSQL and Other Databases

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Rapid Restore for MySQL and MariaDB

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Eliminate MySQL and MariaDB Replication Time to Availability

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1. Relational vs. Non-relational (NoSQL) databases

Databases can be broadly categorized into two groups:

Relational databases: The traditional data storage architecture for storing structured data. Key value pairs are used to store information into tables consisting of columns and rows. Database queries are conducted using SQL.
Non-relational (NoSQL) databases: An alternative data storage architecture well suited to storing unstructured data. Document data stores, column-oriented databases, key-value stores and graph databases are all examples of NoSQL databases. While many of these NoSQL databases technically support SQL-compatible queries, the underlying query strategy is fundamentally different.

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2. What are some examples of open source relational databases?

Common examples of open source relational databases include:

PostGreSQL
MySQL
MariaDB
SQLite
CockroachDB

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3. What are some examples of open source NoSQL databases?

Common examples of open source NoSQL databases include:

MongoDB
CouchDB
Cassandra
Redis
Neo4j

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