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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 zacharypinter »

kahawe wrote: post #145

Is it possible HN has a very strong bias on web developers? Because in "serious business" or at least in my case in finance, you almost always find Oracle and DB2 being the leading DBs and maybe Sybase and maybe-maybe mysql or mssql but hardly ever postgre no matter how awesome it is and definitely never-ever something hip and cool and latest-fashion/fad like Mongo or Couch.

At the very least, I'd say it has a bias towards younger/smaller companies for whom the price point of Oracle/DB2 doesn't make sense.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by versae »

espeed wrote: post #5

You should add the Neo4j ( http://neo4j.org/ ) graph database to the list. Graphs are a much more modern and elegant way of storing relational data. I've used Postgres for over 10 years, but it's not a graph database. With graph databases you don't have to mess with tables or joins -- everything is implicitly joined. And Neo4j is ridiculously sweet -- store 32 billion nodes ( http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/03/neo4j-13-ab…

We are also using Neo4j in an academic environment and we are really pleased with it. We recommend it despite of the lack of a good native binding Python, we had to build a neo4j-rest-client (https://github.com/versae/neo4j-rest-client) through REST API.

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Post by nradov »

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #156
nradov wrote: post #147

IBM DB2. It's still unmatched for XML support.

What do you think of MarkLogic?

It's not really comparable. We need the flexibility of supporting both relational and hierarchical models in a single database with high performance for OLTP applications. MarkLogic doesn't target that market.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by rwmj »

shizcakes wrote: post #152
SwellJoe wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Firefox uses it.

Indeed ...

http://berrange.com/posts/2011/06/22/firefox-form-data-histo...

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by aerkalov »

zwischenzug wrote: post #163
barake wrote: post #98

In order of important around here: * Informix * MSSQL * Oracle * MySQL

We use Informix too! Well, our customers do. Thought we were a dying breed. Surprised to see it mentioned here twice. We use Postgres and MySQL too.

Nice to see there are still some Informix users alive! :) We are dying breed for sure, don't see any new solutions being developed lately. Too bad. Anyhoo, we also use Oracle, MS SQL and MySQL.
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