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Re:Why Use Postgres? by floatboth on Sunday April 30, 2017 @04:11PM (#14233566)
That's finance and trading. In web services, "Oracle" is a bad word. Like. Paying money? For a database system?! That sounds extremely alien to me
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Re:Why Use Postgres? by threeseed on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:17PM (#14234430)
Not sure if you're actually worked in web services but it's very common to pay for database systems.

Netflix, eBay, Apple, Sony (for PSN), Spotify are all Datastax customers paying for the commercial version of Cassandra.

Facebook, Foursquare, eHarmony, Buzzfeed, LinkedIn are listed as paying customers of MongoDB.

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Re:Why Use Postgres? by floatboth on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:34PM (#14239610)
Yeah, sure, big companies pay for support/consulting! But Cassandra and Mongo are FOSS, you don't have to pay for the right to use them.
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