Postgres 11 – A First Look

Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by mrep on Saturday September 22, 2018 @01:39AM (#18044661)

> This is why Google and (I assume) Amazon used MySQL internally.

Amazon actually uses a lot of Oracle with some scattering of MySQL.

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Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by tfehring on Sunday September 23, 2018 @12:22AM (#18049387)

It looks like Amazon's migrating away from Oracle pretty aggressively, however. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/amazon-plans-to-move-off-ora...

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Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by reitanqild on Saturday September 22, 2018 @08:57AM (#18045804)

That's weird.

But maybe at their scale even Oracle can be made tolerable.

That, and they have some serious leverage in negotiations.

(I used to deal with Oracle DBs a lot a few years ago but thankfully not anymore.)

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