A security technology company has spent six years comparing vulnerabilities in consecutive versions of Oracle’s relational database management products with Microsoft’s SQL Server database and found more than three times as many security flaws in Oracle’s offering than in Microsoft’s.
The six-year survey by external researchers working for the UK’s Next Generation Security Software (NGSS) revelealed that 233 vulnerabilities were reported and fixed in Oracle’s 8, 9, and 10g databases compared to 59 in Microsoft’s SQL Server 7, 2000 and 2005 technologies.
