Re:MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions
by chipotle_coyote on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:06PM
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There are several companies that are leveraging PostgreSQL for their own businesses, but that doesn't seem to me to be a rebuttal of the OP's assertion that PostgreSQL couldn't survive as a company itself. Citus Data is not "PostgreSQL as a company," it is "a company that exists because PostgreSQL already existed."
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Re:MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions
by qaq on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:51PM
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Well majority of key Postgres contributors work for
2ndQuadrant, EnterpriseDB, Crunchy Data, Citus etc.
It basically means PostgreSQL is a distributed company and it would survive fine but being distributed it looks like it is able to innovate faster and is more resilient.
Re:MongoDB gets support for multi-document ACID transactions
by chipotle_coyote on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:31PM
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| It basically means PostgreSQL is a distributed company
I would argue that it means that different companies using PostgreSQL help fund PostgreSQL development. That's not the same thing as being a single company. It's a model which clearly works very well for PostgreSQL, but it doesn't really give us good data on whether the "single company doing closed source development" (e.g., Oracle) and "single company driving the bulk of open source development" (e.g., MongoDB) models would have worked as well for them.