Ask HN: Is PostgreSQL Your Goto DBMS?

[munduz]

Noticed for me, whenever new project starts, PostgreSQL is chosen as a DBMS.

We don't even consider other DBMS. PostgreSQL has proven it's efficiency even in big tech.

P.S. No offense to other DBMS

[jmstfv]

I love Postgres and used it in the past in my businesses.

With my new business, though, I went with SQLite. It's good enough, and I don't have to worry about keeping it up 24/7 (or paying someone to keep it up). I can copy a database file to a new machine, and it'll be up and running in no time. I don't worry much about scalability.

More often than not, simple is better than complex.

[tofukid]

My go to is SQLite, unless I need GIS features. If traffic or database size becomes unwieldy, it’s easy to transition to PostgreSQL.

[munduz]

We do same with projects in django but deploy with PostgreSQL.

[thorin]

My go-to DB is Oracle, because I've been using it for like 20 years commercially. The DB I'm next most familiar with is SQL Server. Both of these are fine, for most use cases (see stackoverflow on SQL Server and MANY large organizations on Oracle. For my own projects, if I had to pay the license I would use Postgres as the primary store, or a cloud db PAAS/SAAS. No need to use anything other that Postgres IMHO.

[m8s]

It's pretty much the default database in the Elixir/Phoenix world and I really don't see any reason for my to change.

[steve_taylor]

Yes, and I’m proud to say it’s been my go-to DBMS since before it was popular. It has always been an excellent choice. I wish someone would make something like Oracle Apex for PostgreSQL.

[kumarvvr]

Ideally yes. But being a lazy developer, I go to ORMs for most projects, so it doesn't really matter. However, I do regularly update and use PostgreSQL as the database of choice.

[mindcrime]

Yes, absolutely. I love PostgreSQL and it's definitely my default choice, barring some very specific reason to go in a different direction.

[marto1]

Yep. And it almost always delivers. As a bonus all your clients/monitoring/devops stack is exactly the same across applications.

[Andys]

I have switched to cockroachdb for personal projects as it is wire-compatible with postgres, but is easier to run/scale/maintain

[max_hammer]

Yep.

Good performance. No license fee. Long term support. Large talent Pool.

Oracle is very costly and I won't touch SQLServer with 10 feet pole.

[shams93]

Yeah it's definitely taking off and with the improved support for kubernetes it's going to take off even more.

[atmosx]

What kind of support are we talking about?

[gjvc]

https://www.kubegres.io/ perhaps

[atmosx]

Thanks

[altdataseller]

I use MongoDB as it’s more scalable by default. Harder to distribute Postgres across more than 1 node

[JasonCannon]

I always use SQL Server because we are a .net/azure shop.

[munduz]

My colleagues started using PostgreSQL even in Azure. Don't know details though, maybe it is easier to use MSSQL in Azure ???

[JasonCannon]

Azure does offer PostgreSQL, but that only launched in 2018. I was working at a Microsoft consultant shop when we started working on my current companies project back in 2016. So when it came to managed database as a service, it was MSSQL.

[viso]

yes but i didnt try many other databases, but from what i know it may very well be the best one.