Discussion about state of database industry

Various Offerings:
– Oracle – for enterprise; large commercial; very tweakable
– MySQL – open source, lot of website use this; simpler, but fast and scaleable
– MariaDB – alternative to MySQL (owned by Oracle)
– SqlServer – Microsoft (Microsoft Access similar)
– Postgress – imitation of and direct competitor to Oracle, but open source
– SQLite – embedded database vs a database that you connect to over the network (ala Oracle and MySQL); built into the application (i.e. Python); really small and used all over (e.g. your car has prob has multiple copies of this)