Comment by BinaryIdiot
9 years ago
It's mostly because of the money. Relational is still a great type of database and I'm sure Oracle is great. But I haven't worked with many companies that could afford Oracle very easily if at all.
I also wouldn't make a generic database recommendation :)
Not necessarily a choice, but everywhere I've ever worked used Oracle. Including my last 2 <500-person Valley-based tech companies I've been employed at used it.
For all its drawbacks (and I'm not a DBA or developer) at least I don't have to participate in HN threads where people discuss the 10 buzzwordy-DB-but-not-a-DB trends-of-the-week to migrate your data to.. which will all be forgotten next week :)