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Sybase is pervasive in investment banks. Not sure why. Other popular big databases are Ingres and Informix. At a big airline I worked at, we had three differ
by emmelaich 9y ago
Sybase is pervasive in investment banks. Not sure why.
Other popular big databases are Ingres and Informix.
At a big airline I worked at, we had three different major databases on our Unix systems: Informix, Ingres and Oracle.
The mainframes had a few more.
Here's a HN poll on what dbs people use.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684620
- gaius 9y agoSybase is pervasive in investment banks. Not sure why. Sybase were always very willing to customise their product for financial services customers. Someone I knew there told be about the changes they’d made to their DATE datatype to make it easy for one bank to handle bonds from the Napoleonic era for example.
- gadders 9y agoIt also used to be quite a bit faster 20 odd years ago.
- mianos 9y agoSybase was good, ran on Unix and did not cost the earth and had more transparent pricing, as opposed to Oracle. Back in the late 90s some trading systems used Informix but the big exchanges I worked on always chose Sybase over our internal use of Informix. Sybase was pretty good aside from a few gotchas. Does anyone remember the the exploding execution time issues when joining more than three tables?
- DrScump 9y agoThere's some big Belgian bank that runs or ran Informix; they tried to recruit me back then.