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by majidazimi 3030 days ago
> Well, Java has the advantage of being platform (and to a certain degree, runtime) independent

What is the benefit of that? Who on earth runs a DB written in Java on windows? Any useful server software will end up using platform native features, be it SQL server, MySQL, HBase, ...

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> Who on earth runs a DB written in Java on windows?

There still are lots of Windows-only shops.