Year 2006 is drawing to the end. Domestic database market keeps soaring with 19.3 percent annual growth rate. International database magnates successively launched their latest products. For instance, Oracle 10g, IBM DB29, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and so on. There are three distinct impressions of 2006 China’s database market.

 

At present, international mainstream database manufacturers have released their new generation database products without exception, which support combined application of both relational data and XML data. For example, IBM declare DB2 9 to be the first hybrid database which needs no definition of XML data format and allows seamless management of relational data and pure XML data.

 

 

Commercial information and data produced in enterprises are proliferating. How to facilitate enterprise customers to capture valuable information from mass data and make effective business decision is the development focus to database manufacturers. Many suppliers declare that their new products are improved greatly in business intelligence. For example, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is embedded with complete BI suit including data warehouse, data analysis, ETL tools, report forms and data mining etc.

 

 

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) has been a main development trend in IT industry. IBM and BEA are the original promoters. The later followers include Oracle, Microsoft and so on. It is noteworthy that Microsoft changed its attitude to SOA service from hesitation to overall promotion of its SQL Server 2005, which can partly indicates the booming development of SOA. In order to expand SME market, some mainstream database manufactures are developing free charge products embedded with simple practical functionalities.