How about adding IBM's DB2, it seem there are very few companies actually using it.
Poll: What database does your company use?
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#92SQL Server! I especially love the way I can push in a large dataset and have it upsert the lot in a couple hundred milliseconds!
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#93How come I can only choose one? As a large enterprise I am aware of atleast one app using the following: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft, Oracle. We also use: DB2, Informix, SQLite, and some others I don't even know about.
You can always vote for more than one option on HN polls. Try it out.
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#94SQL Server unfortunately. I was reminded why I hate it today when I was trying to set up a simple remote connection to the instance running on my new Windows 7 machine. TCP/IP enabled, IPv4 addresses activated and enabled, remote connections enabled, firewall disabled (for now), and it still didn't work! I tried introducing MySQL over a year ago only to have some hilarious emails with a senior programmer about how we…
Have you tried to do the same thing with MySQL and had success? There's a lot of things in your example that could be causing you grief other than the type of SQL Server you are running; i.e. Network Security, Local Security Configuration (Both machines), User Error (is this something you setup all the time?)
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#95SQLite 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.
For me JSON has replaced SQLLite, with a large reduction in code and complexity. [ Admittedly I've written my own routines to access it more simply/directly on iOS ]
Yeah and like HTML5 has totally replaced our web server.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Having Oracle as your db doesn't mean that you are not working on interesting problems First, I consider consultancy for customers using Oracle to be OK, as long as you earn something from it. But if your company chooses Oracle, it means that you're bogged down by legacy, stupid company processes and/or clueless managers. And in most such environments, the harder you try to change it for the better, the harder it fig…
I hope you realize that a company might choose to use Oracle for a reason other than "brochures and lap dances", and that a "legacy" decision to use Oracle doesn't necessarily mean you are "bogged down" or that the decision was stupid.
I don't understand how using Oracle for your RDBMS is suddenly equated with all the things you mention.
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#97The relatively low amount assigned to couch is what surprises me. I thought it was fairly widely used (in the NOSQl world)?
These numbers seem representational to me from what I've seen/heard in the SF Bay Area.
MongoDB is typically introduced to optimize part of a stack, although more and more it is used as a sole/primary data store. I think ORMs and use of Mongo by prominent consulting shops helped boost adoption.
The particularities of CouchDB replication are very well suited to a enterprise application with a distributed architecture that I'm working on. I hope it sticks around for a long time, even if it doesn't have the biggest dev user base.
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#98In order of important around here:
* Informix
* MSSQL
* Oracle
* MySQL
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#99Riak! We're ( http://bu.mp ) using more Riak every day. So far so good.
+1 for Riak, it's suiting our needs very well so far.
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#100I'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.
I use to work with Oracle daily (previous job) and now I use MySQL mostly with some Postgres and SQLServer at times (lots of client work).
I would say all these databases are worthwhile as long as the DBA is competent. Given that, unless you have a reason to choose Oracle (e.g. familiarity, integration with other applications, a specific Oracle only feature, contractual obligation), I see no reason to choose Oracle. Many companies choose Oracle because Oracle built a solid database/brand early on while catering to big businesses. MySQL and Postgres made great progress in the past decade make them valid alternatives.