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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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SQLite 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.

In some scenarios I prefer Microsoft Excel over SQLite. Yes, Excel can be used as a database as well!

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Firefox uses it.

So does Chrome. Actually, this comes in handy: http://sqlite.org/famous.html

Ouch, Php got a mention, but they snubbed Rails, despite the fact that it comes bundled ... DHH won't like that one bit!

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For everything you've said about Riak re: stability and happy scalability, that's exactly why I was excited to include it in this test. I would like to prevent myself/my team from acquiring too many of those scars, so please elaborate on what caused them ;) Especially if those scars came from Cassandra or HBase! The test hasn't been a "concocted scenario", it's measuring the performance[1] of a prototype implementati…

> The test hasn't been a "concocted scenario" Btw, b/c I can totally see why you'd read it that way, that particular barb wasn't directed at you, more directed at some of the public benchmarks touted by (non-distributed) NoSQL database systems. Re: cassandra, please see my reply to the sibling on this thread. Also, feel free to email me jamie@bu.mp if I can answer any specific questions for you with things we ran int…

Can you make a blog post about the issues instead? It would greatly benefit everyone.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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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.

How do you move data between datastores? Do you have to create a second app and migrate manually?

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SQLite is indeed built into iOS and Mac OS X as well. Core Data's store uses SQLite as an option (XML and Binary are the others), and it is accessible via third party frameworks like FMDB.

It's also built into Android.

And iPhones, and BlackBerries. It is by far the most widely use relational DB in the world (despite what the MySQL people claim on their website, they're not even close)

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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…

Sorry, but this is very amusing: IBM were doing this, with IMS, in the 1960s and IMS is still their highest-revenue product today.
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