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People often ask us at Heroku -- why Postgres? The short answer is: we needed to do something, and it's the best.
by pvh 14y ago
People often ask us at Heroku -- why Postgres?
The short answer is: we needed to do something, and it's the best.
- einhverfr 14y agoI like that. It sums up our experience with PostgreSQL on the LedgerSMB project too.
- pjmlp 14y ago> we needed to do something, and it's the best. For such a statement I would rather take one of DB2, Oracle or SQL Server.
- reidrac 14y agoIn my experience you don't want to provide X as a service based on a third party closed product (meaning: anything not open source & open community).
- pjmlp 14y agoI imagine you don't do business in the enterprise world.
- reidrac 14y agoYes, I do. I said "in my experience" and I totally understand why Heruku is offering PostgreSQL and not DB2, Oracle or SQL Server as a service. Amazon RDS started with MySQL, and only two years later Oracle support was added. SQL Server three years later.
- pjmlp 14y agoSorry about that, should have read better your comment. On my area of work we also do a lot of open source, but most customers won't think twice about using proprietary database solutions, specially taking into consideration the types of deployments we do. In my career in the enterprise world, I've mostly used Oracle, Informix, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase SQL Server. The only two project I used MySQL so far, one was for a prototype application, to be shown in computer fairs. The other was an online survey.