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Re:Why Use Postgres? by sheeshkebab on Sunday April 30, 2017 @02:27PM (#14233067)
In finance, no one will trade on perm oracle/sybase installs for open source databases, even if they were free (which they are not - always have to pay for support). A couple of million $$ don't make the difference in comparison to a few hundred million $$ that have to go into replatforming, tools, skills.

In cloud/managed space, Postgres is also hit and miss - still no good cross-region option and frankly other than AWS RDS not many other managed Postgres services.

So, MySQL rules the cloud/managed databases, and oracle/sybase/mssql rule on prem.

Re:Why Use Postgres? by htn on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:15PM (#14234162)
My company does managed Postgres on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - https://aiven.io/postgresql. Compose offers managed Postgres (https://www.compose.com/postgresql), as does ElephantSQL (https://www.elephantsql.com/). Database Labs is one more provider (https://www.databaselabs.io/).

Google recently added beta version of Postgres to Cloud SQL as well (https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/). Of course, AWS RDS and Heroku have been on the market for some time.

I'd claim managed Postgres market is in a pretty good shape.

Re:Why Use Postgres? by bahmboo on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:03PM (#14233249)
Google Cloud has managed Postgres:

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/

Re:Why Use Postgres? by avtar on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:22PM (#14233343)
They announced that just a few weeks ago. And what they state on the site you linked to proves the parent's point about managed Postgres being hit or miss:

"This is a Beta release of Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. This product might be changed in backward-incompatible ways and is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy."

Re:Why Use Postgres? by m_fayer on Sunday April 30, 2017 @05:36PM (#14233980)
Azure offers a managed version of mssql, which I'm quite happy with.