Over the last several decades, database management systems have become an integral part of every corporate IT landscape. The overall number of databases coupled with the rate of data growth means that every organization in the world has significant cost centers that revolve around the management and implementation of various data stores. The challenge for every organization that tracks large amounts of data is to deal with explosive growth cost-effectively while keeping IT budgets intact.

This database manageability and productivity cost comparison study provides IT decision makers with factual information to address these challenges.