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This is a guest post by Jenny Richards, a professional database administrator who is currently employed at Remote DBA.
In the world of databases, there is no single silver bullet fitting for every gun. How you select the database to use is very dependent on every other factor of your work:
- Who are you and what do you do?
- What is your end goal – what are you working to achieve?
- How much data do you intend to store?
- On what language and OS platforms do your applications run?
- What is your budget?
- Will you also require data warehousing, decision support systems and/or BI?
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