Linux Magazine: Comparing Databases

“Persistence is all too often the drudge work of any project.
It’s fun to design and develop an application, but when it comes
time to figure out how to store and fetch data to and from
persistent (or long-term) storage, the work can get complicated,
unruly, and downright aggravating.

“In most cases, you don’t need to ‘roll your own’ persistent
storage engine. Instead, you can pick from a number of different
databases that are out there, some of which may already be
installed on your Linux system.

“Generally speaking, there are four different types of databases
available on Linux: key/value, relational, object-oriented, and
XML. Each has strengths and weaknesses…”

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