Money moves the world!
Ultimately your choice of database will depend on cost benefit analysis. The vendors intentionally make pricing model very complex (you might need help of your lawyer to understand it – seriously).
Customers rarely pay list price of software nowadays. So, this chapter is to give you some ballpark figures only as guide.
Since, most vendors are USA
Vendor | Product | $ per CPU | $ per user | Support per year $ |
Oracle | 11g | 40,000 | 800 | 10,000 |
Oracle | 11g Standard | 17,000 | 350 | 4,000 |
Microsoft | SQL Server 2008 | 25,000 | ? | ? |
Microsoft | SQL Server 2008 Standard | 6,000 | ? | ? |
Sybase | IQ 12 | 70,000 | ? | 15,000 |
Sybase | ASE 15 | 70,000 | ? | 15,000 |
IBM | DB2 9.5 | 35,000 | ? | 7,500 |
MySQL | Free to install | N/A | 3,000 per server support |
As you can see yourself, SQL Server is cheapest and serves requirement of small to medium organizations very well. Oracle is cheap compared to its features against other databases like Sybase. That’s why Oracle is most popular among large organizations.
Although I mentioned earlier that Sybase IQ, being column based database, is better for large data warehouses, but it doesn’t make sense to justify its cost unless your DWH database size in terabyte level.
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