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My workmate and I are trainees and we got an exercise to realize a project. We have decided us to create a customer management in Java. Now we have to choose a database. We are able to use Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQLDB and of course other Open Source databases.
So, what database is recommend for us?
I thought Oracle is too complex for our small project, isn´t it?
Thank you in advance!
finsterr
Does your company already use Oracle and have people who are expert in it to go to when you get stuck? Then I would use it (if you can learn Oracle, all the other dbs are easy in comparison, take advatage of the resources if you have them). If not then use one of the others.
More important than which database you use is to get up to speed on relational database design before you start to put this together. Here’s a starting place:
http://www.deeptraining.com/litwin/dbdesign/FundamentalsOfRelationalDatabaseDesign.aspx
another good read
Database development mistakes made by application developers