Source: thenewstack.io
From a Fan: On the Ascendance of PostgreSQL
The https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#databases has been out for a couple of weeks now, and it’s jam-packed with good information to help end users and tech vendors alike get a better handle on what software developers are into these days. One section of the report I’m particularly excited about is a topic near and dear to my heart (and brain!): databases.
It’s not hard to imagine why PostgreSQL’s upkeep was so much slower, and PostgreSQL ceded a lot of ground.
In today’s world, with Docker containers, it’s trivially easy to get a working PostgreSQL or MySQL instance up and running.
If I can’t trust my database to hold correctly — literally hold on to it — then it’s hardly a database, it’s more just…
It’s not hard to imagine why PostgreSQL’s upkeep was so much slower, and PostgreSQL ceded a lot of ground.
In today’s world, with Docker containers, it’s trivially easy to get a working PostgreSQL or MySQL instance up and running.
If I can’t trust my database to hold correctly — literally hold on to it — then it’s hardly a database, it’s more just…
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