If SQLServer is going to be referred to as "Microsoft" shouldn't MySQL be lumped under the "Oracle" grouping?
Poll: What database does your company use?
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#42It's really hard to compare results between both polls. It would be nice if pg added the percentages next to each item, or at least sort them.
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#43MySQL, with SQLite for development environments. I want to learn/migrate to Postgres though, what with MySQL being in Oracle's hands.
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#44Amazon RDS and SimpleDB. I voted for MySql and Other.
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#46In my best hipster impression: I used to use databases until they became mainstream. Now I use this new thing, but you wouldn't understand it.
Seriously though: Cassandra since it makes it really easy for us to scale and provides an opportunity to implement new columns without losing legacy support.
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#47Own / in-house
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#48Percona builds of MySQL. They're awesome, and Percona support is much, much better than official MySQL support.
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#49We use Google App Engine datastore (voted Other)
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#50I'm surprised to see that Oracle even has as many mentions as it does, given how rarely you read about it here on HN. We're locked into it at my workplace, and every time I'm reminded of this PG quote I cringe a little: "The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous was the company. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those."
I suspect that it's the HNers still toiling away in large companies that are voting for Oracle. You'd probably see about as many votes for DB2 had it been an option.
Same with Sybase.