Poll: What database does your company use?

Post by ianl » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 12:41 PM UTC

Impossible wrote: post #233

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.

HN does have a strong web developer bias. Afaik I know most major massively multiplayer online games (like World of Warcraft for example) use Oracle. I worked on a game a few years ago that started with MySQL, and switched over to Oracle during development. This is probably only true in larger high budget games though. Social games and f2p games probably use MySQL (or NoSQL) databases because there is a lot more over…

Post by bmunro » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 12:46 PM UTC

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.

Post by gbog » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:15 PM UTC

upthedale wrote: post #136

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…

> but some people don't consider anything not made by Microsoft worth using. Also some people don't consider anything made by Microsoft worth using. Perhaps your senior programmer did fall into the former category, I don't know. However, you should take care not to fall into the latter.

Post by bonzoesc » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:33 PM UTC

paulnelligan wrote: post #304

nakkiel wrote: post #257

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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!

Post by alextingle » Thu, Jun 23, 2011, 1:34 PM UTC

daleharvey wrote: post #242

statictype wrote: post #240

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The sarcasm was perhaps a little mean but he has a point. If a flat text file storing JSON could replace your database, then you probably never needed a DB in the first place.

Lots of people use full blown rdbms's when they dont need to (see blogs), its not a silly point and the sarcasm was unwarranted