KDnuggets : Polls : Data Storage for Data Mining
Poll
What did you use for data storage for significant data mining projects in the past year: [142 voters, 284 votes]

Text files (e.g. tab or comma delim) (75) 52.8%
Data mining system format (SAS, SPSS, arff) (57) 40.1%
Excel (28) 19.7%
Oracle (25) 17.6%
SQL Server (15) 10.6%
mySQL (12) 8.5%
other format (10) 7.0%
other commercial DBMS (7) 4.9%
other free DBMS (4) 2.8%

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Here are the results of a similar 2005 poll on Data storage formats for data mining.


KDnuggets : Polls : Data Storage for Data Mining

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