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Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by djcjgshjjc on Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:06AM (#12266821)
Well, the best analytics database for your use case may not be cheap. E.g. a column store database.

Even open source options can require expensive eng/ops resources to set up a cluster.

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Re:“Joel Test” for Data Science by collyw on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:15AM (#12267560)
Oracle is probably best in class relational database, but Postgres or MySQL will work fine for most use cases.
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