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Poll: What database does your company use?

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Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by tedunangst »

bad_user wrote: post #87
justlearning wrote: post #63

Earlier 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…

Amazon uses Oracle. I think to completely disregard Amazon because of this fact would be a mistake.

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Post by benjohnson »

Maro wrote: post #118
s00pcan wrote: post #90

SQL 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…

If licensing and running on Windows would not be an issue, I'd choose SQL Server over Mysql any day.

I sort of would too... but then again PostgreSQL runs just fine in Windows.

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Post by davepeck »

waleedka wrote: post #120
davepeck wrote: post #113

Voted "other". We're using the App Engine master/slave datastore for getcloak.com. We're moving over to the HRD soon; the role of the HRD in App Engine's future wasn't clear when we started building our app.

Same here. Voted other. I have a big database on the App Engine, and I'm moving more of my data from mysql to the datastore.

Out of curiosity, are you on the HRD already? We have some fairly sensitive billing code and... well, I'm nervous about the transition to HRD...

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Post by qrush »

joeyrobert wrote: post #26
qrush wrote: post #20

Hey Redis folks, if you haven't played with http://radishapp.com/ yet I'd love to hear your feedback on it. Also, go Postgres! Woot!

I'd totally use an open source clone of that.

I think this same argument goes for any kind of SaaS. Hopefully with us we provide enough value over rolling your own Redis monitoring/data analysis that you won't need to.

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Post by rdtsc »

wtn wrote: post #97
bradendouglass wrote: post #73

The 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…

> The particularities of CouchDB replication are very well suited to a enterprise application with a distributed architecture that I'm working on.

That is what made it stand out for us. CouchDB carved itself a nice niche in that area and currently doesn't have any viable competitors. We have a cluster that runs continuous replications to sync data around and it works great. Had we used Erlang we would have used Mnesia (the dataset and pattern of access fits it well) but we use Python & C so CouchDB works great for us.

Also wondering what future will bring and if they'll ever end up with some hybrid of Membase+Couchbase? Reliable document saving and replication + fast key value store, rolled all in one?

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Post by jemfinch »

mmaunder wrote: post #95
gord wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

He means a flat file of JSON records. Your sarcasm is unnecessary and uncharitable.
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