They use Sybase. I use SQLite. If it's good enough for the A350, it's good enough for my Perl script.
Poll: What database does your company use?
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#82I am surprised that nobody mentions IBM DB2.
In the bank where I work, the banking system uses DB2 on mainframes.
Our data warehouse uses SAS.
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#83SQLite 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.
For me JSON has replaced SQLLite, with a large reduction in code and complexity. [ Admittedly I've written my own routines to access it more simply/directly on iOS ]
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#84Missing option: BDB.
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#85Forget NoSQL, this is MoSQL.
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#86Earlier 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.
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.
Re: Poll: What database does your company use?
#87I'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."
Having Oracle as your db doesn't mean that you are not working on interesting problems. Every company is not a startup. Some of us work on well established products used by huge customer base who use Oracle and in turn we are forced to. Above all, are you helping a customer? solve his problems instead of compounding it - that my friend is more important than choosing Oracle or Mongodb.
Having Oracle as your db doesn't mean that you
are not working on interesting problems
But if your company chooses Oracle, it means that you're bogged down by legacy, stupid company processes and/or clueless managers.
And in most such environments, the harder you try to change it for the better, the harder it fights back, putting yourself in an awkward position in which you are considered the bad apple of the team. So you end up either adapting (not giving a shit), quitting or finding some small project with no perspective for the company (i.e. less controlled) that can bring you pleasure.
Of course, some companies, like Adobe for example, use Oracle when it doesn't impact their core competencies, as it's a safe choice for corporate types. But a company like Adobe doesn't earn money from projects that are relying on Oracle and other projects inside Adobe are also using HBase and MySql and their own distributed file-system that can be queried and so forth.
Either way that quote is correct. I'm not promoting the latest fads (personally I'm not into NoSql unless it makes absolute sense), but you can safely ignore companies that make decisions based on brochures and lap dances.
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#88How come I can only choose one?
As a large enterprise I am aware of atleast one app using the following: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft, Oracle.
We also use: DB2, Informix, SQLite, and some others I don't even know about.
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#89How about "all of the above"? Various projects have various needs, some more than one, which means you typically end up with lots of different databases.
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#90SQL 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 would have to pay for MySQL. The GPL is not hard to read, but some people don't consider anything not made by Microsoft worth using. Like Linux. "No one uses Linux in the real world!" "PHP is for small personal websites!" - real quotes, sadly.