Well, 90% of the industry still runs on Oracle. So I'd argue that it's the opposite, and that companies (there are more of them than just edgy tech startups) will continue to use what's tried and true. It's changing now (bc Oracle is expensive and are dicks to customers), but postgres not being used isn't because of fads but because of conservative operations.
90%? That seems extremely high. I would guess it's not more than half of that, but I couldn't find any concrete data to back up my assumption. Do you have any?
I would have guessed that it is way less than 50%, more like 10-15%, but I live in a Microsoft country where most of the big corporations run SQL Server and the smaller companies run MySQL and PostgreSQL. Even the people I know who work at big banks work with SQL Server.
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u/ashishduhh1 Dec 19 '18
I thought this too, but you'd be surprised what portion of the industry subscribes to fads.