Step 2 - Set your weightings
RDBMS
Weight
Generic section
Intrinsic durability
Maturity
Age
Stability
History
Fork
Adoption
Popularity
References
Contributing Community
books
Development leadership
Leading team
Management style
Activity
Developers, identification, turnover
Activity on bugs
Activity on functionalities
Activity on releases
Industrialized solution
Independence of developments
Services
Training
Support
Consulting
Documentation
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance
Tools
Packaging
BSD
FreeBSD
Mac OS X
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Linux
Debian
Mandriva
Red Hat
SuSE
Source
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Solaris
Windows
Exploitability
Ease of use, ergonomics
Administration / Monitoring
Technical adaptability
Modularity
Code modification
Code extension
Strategy
License
Permissiveness
Protection against proprietary forks
Copyright owners
Modification of source code
Roadmap
Sponsor
Strategical independence
RDBMS features
SQL compliance
SQL-92 compliance
SQL-99 compliance
SQL:2003 compliance
Classic SQL features
Table constraints
Named constraints
Column constraints
NULL constraints
Column's default values
Functions for default values
Foreign keys support
Foreign key updates
Security
SSL support
Transactions
Transactional engine
Locking granularity
XA compliance
Other SQL features
Views
Stored procedures
Triggers
Schemas
Subselects
Tablespaces
UNICODE
Advanced features
Clustering
Replication
OLAP
XML features
GIS features
Tools
Administration tools
Query tools
Migration tools
Optimization tools