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by pjmlp 3698 days ago
I have been using it a lot lately, and do like it.

It isn't a popular opinion on HN, but I will still advise for Oracle or SQL Server in terms of tooling, cluster scaling, server side programming and DB drivers.

Then again, we work with customers whose Oracle and SQL Server licenses costs aren't an issue.

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Have an upvote, I'm not sure why you're being down-voted.

If you take the issues of open-source and licensing out of the equation (both important issues in their own right, but not related to the point at hand) then Oracle and SQL Server are both ridiculously good.

I personally try to avoid them (due to the cost, and the lock-in) but they are astoundingly performant and featureful RDBMSs with a huge amount of support and documentation behind them.

Thanks for the upvote.

I guess some took it personally, although I mentioned I do like Postgres.

I just happen to like the other ones even more, since I was lucky to be able to use them in a few projects.

Downvotes originate from open source fanatics. Odd it results in downvotes though; my first thought is also a fairly retaliatory "commercial offerings, why?!", but I'd never downvote for it. tips hat
1) Coming to a discussion on Postgres and saying Oracle is better is clearing trolling

2) "server side programming" - as you have the source code with Postgresql and their a plugins for most major programming languages I don't buy this.

3) If you of spent the same on Enterprisedb or CitusDB I can guarantee you would get similar polish and support. People don't.

Can you explain how the comment was trolling? It seemed to be a legitimate comparison.