Oracle Database

February 24, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Math & ProgrammingProductivity & Utility
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Comparable: Access, Filemaker Pro

Oracle DBMS (DataBase Management System) is an enterprise grade database system designed to handle very large and complex databases with high availability and redundancy.  Oracle databases are popular in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems such as Banner and PeopleSoft.

Oracle licenses are very complex due to its scalability and typical usage.  Often the license is priced per processor, since the number of processors typically scales with the size of your database usage and operation.  Large server clusters often have dozens of processors dedicated to processing request for an Oracle database.

Tags: database

Drupal

February 24, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Design & Visualization

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Availability: UNC Service
Comparable:  WordPress

Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP.  It is used as a back-end framework for at least 2.1% of all Web sites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including WhiteHouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.

Drupal must be installed on the web server hosting the needed content.  UNCC has Drupal hosting as a service which is described here.

Filemaker Pro

February 24, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Math & ProgrammingProductivity & Utility
filemaker_logoAvailability: Download
Comparable: Access, Oracle

FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a GUI-based interface, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms. Current versions are: FileMaker Pro 13, FileMaker Pro Advanced 13, FileMaker Server 13, and FileMaker Go 13 for iPhone and iPad.

Since 1992 Filemaker Pro has been available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, and can be used in a cross-platform environment. FileMaker server briefly ran on Linux, but Linux support was abandoned with FileMaker 7, and the server currently runs only on Windows or OS X servers. It is available in desktop, server, iOS and web-delivery configurations.

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