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Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by farnulfo »

bad_user wrote: post #112
brown9-2 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you realize that a company might choose to use Oracle for a reason other than "brochures and lap dances", and that a "legacy" decision to use Oracle doesn't necessarily mean you are "bogged down" or that the decision was stupid. I don't understand how using Oracle for your RDBMS is suddenly equated with all the things you mention.

Such as? Really, I'd like to know the reason for why a company might choose Oracle.

  true clustering (Oracle RAC)
  multi platform
  support

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by __rkaup__ »

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…

The GPL doesn't forbid charging for software licensed with it. The Free Software Foundation even encourages you to sell your GPL'ed software [1]. However, once you have the software, you can do whatever you like with it, and that includes giving it away for free.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by ibejoeb »

msluyter wrote: post #19

I'm surprised to see that Oracle even has as many mentions as it does, given how rarely you read about it here on HN. We're locked into it at my workplace, and every time I'm reminded of this PG quote I cringe a little: "The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous was the company. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those."

I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record around here, but:

1. I build products on Oracle at a startup.

2. Oracle has many compelling features that really don't have first-class open source alternatives: OLAP, encryption (wire and at-rest), VPD, materialized views with query rewriting, object and document storage, monitoring and tracing, among others...

3. Oracle got more compelling since being offered--license included!--on Amazon RDS.

There are a ton of responses for Microsoft; why doesn't anyone question that? Actually, I'm curious now. Is there a new incentive for SQL Server? Maybe something in BizSpark that makes it attractive?

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by davidhollander »

ghotli wrote: post #23

Interesting to see Tokyo with so few votes. On benchmarking it had the smallest memory footprint when loading ~17GB of packed binary data. Been awhile but I remember testing redis, postgres, mongo, and bdb. This let us keep all the low latency read-only data we needed available in memory and provision the smallest possible machine to do it.

Tokyo is my standard database for personal projects and goes great with Lua. Both are lightweight and fast, Cabinet has an excellent binding, and Tyrant has embedding.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by kahawe »

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.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by kenjackson »

bad_user wrote: post #112
brown9-2 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you realize that a company might choose to use Oracle for a reason other than "brochures and lap dances", and that a "legacy" decision to use Oracle doesn't necessarily mean you are "bogged down" or that the decision was stupid. I don't understand how using Oracle for your RDBMS is suddenly equated with all the things you mention.

Such as? Really, I'd like to know the reason for why a company might choose Oracle.

Oracle is a bear to get setup. Nearly impossible, best I can tell, but the feature set is incredible. It's like Excel 2003 -- pretty much every feature you might want is in there somewhere, just need to find out how to expose it. For example, I've seen people say that its auditing and regulatory support has no peer. I don't really know that stuff well, but the ppl who told me spent non-trivial amounts of time with other solutions to see that Oracle made the most sense.

My point, if all you ever need from a database is solved with key/value store then Oracle is not mildly interesting.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by grourk »

jamwt wrote: post #70

Riak! We're ( http://bu.mp ) using more Riak every day. So far so good.

Ditto (http://dropc.am). Very write heavy load for us, which Riak handles without blinking. Fault tolerant, robust, and easy to administer. Every machine is identical, no special "master" nodes or anything like that.

Re: Poll: What database does your company use?

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Post by kahawe »

ibejoeb wrote: post #143
msluyter wrote: post #19

I'm surprised to see that Oracle even has as many mentions as it does, given how rarely you read about it here on HN. We're locked into it at my workplace, and every time I'm reminded of this PG quote I cringe a little: "The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous was the company. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those."

I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record around here, but: 1. I build products on Oracle at a startup. 2. Oracle has many compelling features that really don't have first-class open source alternatives: OLAP, encryption (wire and at-rest), VPD, materialized views with query rewriting, object and document storage, monitoring and tracing, among others... 3. Oracle got more compelling since being offered--lic…

Also, do not forget or underestimate the cheek-in-tongue "Nobody got fired for buying Oracle" in this case.
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