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It's plenty loved, I'd say the most loved, but still a fair way behind Oracle in terms of popularity just because of legacy stuff. Damn legacy code, hecking JQu

• keyle 5y ago
  To be clear, Oracle's popularity isn't popularity in the sense of popular folk love. Unless you mean popularity in the most rancid disgust available en masse.
• kumarvvr 5y ago
  > but still a fair way behind Oracle in terms of popularity I have a vague feeling that those who use Oracle are using it due to circumstance or corporate necessity.
  • strictfp 5y ago
    Oracle is a hot mess but it also has some really powerful features, like table sharding , that actually works if you manage to set it up correctly.
  • pydry 5y ago
    One of the last straws for a job I had once was realizing that the oracle python client would convert money fields into float. Oracle had its tentacles everywhere in that company. I think even they wanted to stop using it but it was just integrated to too much.
• kvdveer 5y ago
  Oracle and popularity don't really go together. Oracle is really common, just like root-canal treatments. Wouldn't refer to either as popular, though.