Abstract
The intent of this project is to measure and analyze the performance of two widely used Database Management System technologies: SQL and Oracle, and to determine which is best suited for what types of query executions. The main goal of the project is to produce a guide for application developers who are developing the applications where database is a considerable part and where data retrieval timing is an important factor. To achieve this goal both DBMS technologies will be tested under various conditions and the results will be analyzed. The measurement will be done for different types of queries for both DBMS(s) by maintaining the same system environment. Measurement factors will be query execution time and memory space requirements. The constraints will be maintaining the identical hardware configurations and system load, i.e., same number of records in both DBMS(s).