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I do not think it is a mystery why people favor Postgres over OracleDB, is it?

• mike_hearn 1mo ago
  Depends what you mean by people. Outside of the startup space you'll find commercial RDBMS everywhere, especially OracleDB. Not many are running banks or hospitals on Postgres.
  • moooo99 1mo ago
    > Not many are running banks or hospitals on Postgres. Certainly not. But the key here is that not many are running banks or hospitals in the first place. I work at a big company, we run on SAP as the big commercial DBMS, but also have some oracle instances. By number by far the most widespread commercial RDBMS seems to be SQL Server