MySQL, but I want to move us over to PostgreSQL soon; we are stuck with MySQL because we use WordPress for the public facing pages so my cofounder can use it as a sort of "CMS" without my needing to build any of that...
Poll: What database does your company use?
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#52I'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 was wondering the same thing. Our startup currently uses it when doing research on data sets, but it's a db I don't hear about very often when talking about startups. I'm assuming a big factor is price.
The licensing is really an issue, especially when you get into the higher-end. They don't charge per computer, they charge per CPU. So you'll have to pay 4x as much in a dual CPU system (I'm not sure if they have a similar licensing structure for dual-core or quad-core systems)
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#53Day job: SQL Server,
Consulting: SQL Server (usually),
Weekend project: Redis
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#54Other - Netezza
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#55SQLite! Love it.
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#56SQLite all over the place – it's great having a super portable DB format for quick little hits. There's nothing quite like sending a DB as an email attachment.
SQLite is so pervasive that I'm pretty sure everyone uses it at some point. It's in client applications, it's used by yum (the package manager found on CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux systems), it's part of many web applications, it's part of many spam filtering systems, it's part of Android (maybe iOS, too?), it's basically impossible to avoid it if you're a nerd.
Also, it's awesome.
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#57I work for US Steel and what you use here depends on the type of programming you do. On the mainframe, everything here is either DB2 or IMS (aka DB1). If you do "alternate platform development" (read: Windows and/or Linux) then you use Oracle. I'm not a mainframer so everything I create personally has to work with Oracle.
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#58flat files!
My company uses actual filing cabinets that have actual physical files.
Do you work at an elementary school, by any chance?
I'm not trying to be a wise guy - it's more of a comment that elementary schools are often last to implement technologically savvy solutions (i.e. solutions that cost a lot of money), so I wouldn't be surprised if you said "yes" to my question.
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#59Large corporations also consider IBM's db2 equivalent to Microsoft's/Oracle's database. There should've been an option for that too.
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#60Well, we're not using it ourselves, but at one client our application connects to DB2... on an AS/400... using JRuby :).