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Disrupt how? Haven't they been part of the traditional relational database market for years now? What's changing?

• Dangeranger 8y ago
  People outside open source are noticing. Also PostgreSQL has improved by large margins in the last five years. The software is more akin to a pyramid rather than a skyscraper. The foundation took a long time, but now that its complete there is a strong base for growth.
  • signal11 8y ago
    It's a little bit like Linux in the late 90s. Postgres is increasingly being used in financial services, for instance, because it's "good enough" -- many teams really don't need Oracle's or SQL Server's feature-set, and Postgres has enough 'interesting' features of its own. It also lets teams own their DB infrastructure and play around with deployment patterns that'd make little sense on Oracle et al because of cost reasons. It's not that Postgres is "killing" commercial databases, it's just that more and more people are, as you said, noticing that they don't need a commercial database for lots of use cases. And support and consultancy -- and even in-team skills -- for Postgres are often available.
• abraae 8y ago
  Shifts in the database world happen at a glacial pace. They've been a part of that world for a long time yes, but they're steadily becoming more and more legit and acceptable as an alternative to Oracle, SQL server.