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It's for the support in most cases. But last time I really used Oracle's RDBMS (10g era) it still had capabilities that no open source database had. If you rea

• ksec 1y ago
  In 2010-2015 when HN and Twitter or all social media at the time thought Postgres would take over the DB world in 10 years time. And yet Postgres 2025 ( ignoring extensions ) is still not competing well with Oracle / MSSQL in 2010-2015. And ignoring politics or preference MySQL is still in many ways better than Postgres. I am sure some day it would come. But it will likely take another 10 years. I just hope Neki + Oriole could come sooner.
  • pphysch 1y ago
    Depends on what circles you are in. If you spend time on HN you see a lot of SQLite and Postgres discussion and building. I can't remember the last time I saw an interesting article here about using MySQL/Oracle/MSSQL. You use those because your CIO told you, like COBOL.
  • MangoToupe 1y ago
    Postgres has mostly taken over the world outside of enterprise. Enterprise has its own needs largely irrelevant to the rest of us.
  • ranger_danger 1y ago
    > MySQL is still in many ways better than Postgres Source: