Recent research sponsored by Database as a Service (DBaaS) company Tesora shows SQL databases are holding their own in cloud usage.

The start-up, which is developing a DBaaS product for the open source Trove DBaaS project introduced in the April “Icehouse” release of the open source OpenStack cloud platform, today released a report titled "“Database Usage in the Public and Private Cloud: Choices and Preferences.” More than 500 developers in North American open source developer communities responded, providing insights into database usage in public and private clouds.

Of those respondents, 79 percent were using a SQL database, while 16 percent were using NoSQL.

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Which Databases Does Your Company Currently Use?(source: Tesora)

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