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In finance, no one will trade on perm oracle/sybase installs for open source databases, even if they were free (which they are not - always have to pay for supp
by sheeshkebab 9y ago
In finance, no one will trade on perm oracle/sybase installs for open source databases, even if they were free (which they are not - always have to pay for support). A couple of million $$ don't make the difference in comparison to a few hundred million $$ that have to go into replatforming, tools, skills.
In cloud/managed space, Postgres is also hit and miss - still no good cross-region option and frankly other than AWS RDS not many other managed Postgres services.
So, MySQL rules the cloud/managed databases, and oracle/sybase/mssql rule on prem.
- bahmboo 9y agoGoogle Cloud has managed Postgres: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/ https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/
- avtar 9y agoThey announced that just a few weeks ago. And what they state on the site you linked to proves the parent's point about managed Postgres being hit or miss: "This is a Beta release of Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. This product might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy."
- m_fayer 9y agoAzure offers a managed version of mssql, which I'm quite happy with.
- htn 9y agoMy company does managed Postgres on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - https://aiven.io/postgresql https://aiven.io/postgresql. Compose offers managed Postgres (https://www.compose.com/postgresql https://www.compose.com/postgresql), as does ElephantSQL (https://www.elephantsql.com/ https://www.elephantsql.com/). Database Labs is one more provider (https://www.databaselabs.io/ https://www.databaselabs.io/). Google recently added beta version of Postgres to Cloud SQL as well (https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/ https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/). Of course, AWS RDS and Heroku have been on the market for some time. I'd claim managed Postgres market is in a pretty good shape.