If SQLServer is going to be referred to as "Microsoft" shouldn't MySQL be lumped under the "Oracle" grouping?
MS really only has one relevant offering in this discussion, unless you want to add Exchange as a document-oriented store.
Poll: What database does your company use?
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#62It'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.
Here is a graph of this poll: http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/database2011/data.png
... and one of the 2010 poll: http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/database2010/data.png
(Updated every ~4 hours currently; I will be fading out the update rate.)
Re: Poll: What database does your company use?
#63I'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."
Having Oracle as your db doesn't mean that you are not working on interesting problems. Every company is not a startup. Some of us work on well established products used by huge customer base who use Oracle and in turn we are forced to.
Above all, are you helping a customer? solve his problems instead of compounding it - that my friend is more important than choosing Oracle or Mongodb.
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#64SQLite 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.
Also damn useful when plugged into NHibernate for bringing up test cases using in memory databases for performance.
Re: Poll: What database does your company use?
#65Ah crap, there needs to be a way to undo your vote -- I read "MySQL" as "MS SQL". Long day, sorry.
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#66What no Intersystems Cache option?
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#67MySQL, 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...
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#68SQLite 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.
Love SQLite when doing some Django development. Great to easily scrap the database with a quick `rm` and repopulate with good data.
Re: Poll: What database does your company use?
#69Legacy apps, Ingres. All sorts of odd little things, SQL Server. Various legacy data processing and newer data warehousing jobs, SAS. New projects, in theory Oracle but there seems to be a degree of resistance. It'd be interesting to see how that pans out but I won't be around there much longer :)
Ingres is underrated, I find it quite ok to work with.
Re: Poll: What database does your company use?
#70Riak! We're ( http://bu.mp ) using more Riak every day. So far so good.