My go-to DB is Oracle, because I've been using it for like 20 years commercially. The DB I'm next most familiar with is SQL Server. Both of these are fine, for most use cases (see stackoverflow on SQL Server and MANY large organizations on Oracle. For my own projects, if I had to pay the license I would use Postgres as the primary store, or a cloud db PAAS/SAAS. No need to use anything other that Postgres IMHO.
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#12Ideally yes. But being a lazy developer, I go to ORMs for most projects, so it doesn't really matter. However, I do regularly update and use PostgreSQL as the database of choice.
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#13I always use SQL Server because we are a .net/azure shop.
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#14Yes, absolutely. I love PostgreSQL and it's definitely my default choice, barring some very specific reason to go in a different direction.
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#15Yep. And it almost always delivers. As a bonus all your clients/monitoring/devops stack is exactly the same across applications.
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#16Yep.
Good performance. No license fee. Long term support. Large talent Pool.
Oracle is very costly and I won't touch SQLServer with 10 feet pole.
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#18yes but i didnt try many other databases, but from what i know it may very well be the best one.
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#19Yes, and I’m proud to say it’s been my go-to DBMS since before it was popular. It has always been an excellent choice. I wish someone would make something like Oracle Apex for PostgreSQL.
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#20I always use SQL Server because we are a .net/azure shop.
My colleagues started using PostgreSQL even in Azure. Don't know details though, maybe it is easier to use MSSQL in Azure ???