Database Types Explained

Databases Mental Illnesses SQL NoSQL Traditional RDBMSs PostgreSQL ORACLE MySQL SQLite IBM DB2 Microsoft SQL Server Amazon RDS “Modern” SQL DBs CockroachDB VOLTDB supabase MariaDB YugabyteDB 8base Timescale YugabyteDB dolt PlanetScale NEON Generative Value Not an exhaustive list of companies/segments. “NoSQL refers to “not-only” SQL- some databases could be in multiple categories. OLAP Database DuckDB ClickHouse ROCKSET DORIS druid amazon ATHENA pinot StarRocks Data Warehouse snowflake Google BigQuery ORACLE Amazon Redshift Azure Synapse Analytics databricks SQL ClickHouse teradata FIREBOLT IBM Db2 Document CouchDB MongoDB Azure Cosmos DB Amazon DocumentDB Amazon DynamoDB Firebase Firestore Graph Dgraph neo4j ArangoDB MEMGRAPH Vector Pinecone Chroma Milvus Weaviate Time-Series* influxdb DolphinDB Timescale Prometheus Search elastic algolia meilisearch Solr Key-Value redis Memcached Amazon DynamoDB KeyDB Multi-Model [title]DB FAUNA ArangoDB SurrealDB Wide Column cassandra HBASE SCYLLA DATASTAX

An infographic categorizes database systems into SQL, NoSQL, traditional relational, modern SQL, OLAP, data warehouse, document, graph, vector, time-series, search, key-value, multi-model, and wide-column databases. The joke comes from the hand-drawn circles labeling the database landscape as “Databases” versus “Mental Illnesses,” suggesting that trying to understand or choose among the huge number of database technologies is overwhelming. It is used as a humorous reaction by developers discussing excessive tooling choices or database complexity.

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