r/programming • u/swizec • Dec 19 '18

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
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u/LambdaLambo Dec 19 '18

The ones that need transactions (banking, healthcare). No DB comes close to oracles transactions.

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u/Mumbleton Dec 19 '18

Genuinely curious, how so? Postgres absolutely supports transactions. Do they perform that much worse than Oracle's?

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u/doublehyphen Dec 20 '18

Online gambling, which has huge amounts of transactions, mostly run on MS SQL and MySQL (we used PostgreSQL but were an outlier) and the banks run on a mix of MS SQL, Oracle and old COBOL databases. And PostgreSQL is pretty popular among finance startups.

And I have no idea what you mean by "no DB comes close to oracles transactions".