To a conservative government purchaser working with a conservative software vendor on a system that doesn't do anything remotely fancy or magic, a relational da

To a conservative government purchaser working with a conservative software vendor on a system that doesn't do anything remotely fancy or magic, a relational database (Oracle, specifically) was most certainly the right choice 10 years ago, only moderately less so today. And just to be clear, that's (mostly) a good thing.