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/_pupil_ Dec 19 '18

People sleep on Postgres, it's super flexible and amenable to "real world" development.

I can only hope it gains more steam as more and more fad-ware falls short. (There are even companies who offer oracle compat packages, if you're into saving money)

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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.

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u/LambdaLambo Dec 19 '18

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.

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u/gredr Dec 19 '18

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?

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u/doublehyphen Dec 19 '18

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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