The Family Tree of DBs - Learn what about your favorite DBs persona. :-)

1. A Database Family Tree
John Wessel | Founder

2. The Codds
Uncle Larry Uncle Billy
Uncle Berke
Cousin Taylor
Jake
Thea
Jeff
The
Family
Tree of
DBs

3. The Codd’s
Uncle Larry
Uncle Berke
Cousin Taylor
Jake
Thea
Jeff
The Codds
The Grandparents

4. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Grandma and Grandpa Codd
1970s
Low-key,
professional,
still working at age
90

5. Claim to
Fame:
The Database of the
Mainframe

6. Which
Database Is It?

7. The Codds
Uncle Larry
Uncle Berke
Cousin Taylor
Jake
Thea
Jeff
The Uncle’s
Uncle Larry Uncle Billy
Uncle Berke

8. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Uncle Larry
1977
We will get to that..

9. Claim to
Fame:
The best relational
database money can
buy…
If you have a lot of
money

10. Personality:
….

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12. Agreeable Data

13. Which
Database Is It?

14. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Uncle Billy
1980s
Former
encyclopedia
salesman…
now excited about
computers

15. Claim to
Fame:
One of the most
widely adopted
databases with closely
coupled reporting and
BI tools

16. Which
Database Is It?

17. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Uncle Berke
1980s?
Timeless. Health
and Exercise
Enthusiast. Aged
like a fine wine.

18. Claim to
Fame:
Truly open source -
with almost all of
the benefits of a
much younger
databases.

20. Which
Database Is It?

21. The Codds
Uncle Larry
Uncle Berke
Cousin Taylor
Jake
Thea
Jeff
The Cousin
Cousin Taylor

22. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Cousin Taylor
2010s
Child star…
of one of those
Disney channel
show from the late
1990s

23. Claim to Fame
(Then):
The most popular
database backend
of the internet

24. Claim to Fame
(Now):
Previously most
popular database
backend of the
internet

25. Which
Database Is It?

26. The Codds
Uncle Larry
Uncle Berke
Cousin Taylor
Jake
Thea
Jeff Jr.
The Siblings
Jake
Thea
Jeff

27. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Jeff
2010s
Strict, structured
like the military.
Not the most
flexible…

28. Claim to
Fame:
One of the 1st
popular cloud data
warehouses

30. Which
Database Is It?

31. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Jake
2010s
Coole guy up on the
latest trends.
Has a few hidden
talents.

32. Claim to
Fame:
One of the first “serverless”
fully managed data
warehouses in the cloud

33. Which
Database Is It?

34. Name:
Born:
Personality:
Thea
2010s
Young and famous
yet somehow
pretty mature

35. Claim to
Fame:
Database of the Modern
Data Stack

37. Which
Database Is It?

39. Thank you!