Comment by osigurdson
1 day ago
>> but they should just migrate to an Oracle Database
No big tech companies or unicorn type startups are using Oracle. Is your claim that they are all wrong?
>> Some startup builds on Postgres then spends half their eng budget at the most critical growth time firefighting around its limits instead of scaling their business
This is why I suggest starting with some kind of normal queue / stream mechanism and columnar DB if needed. It isn't even harder than using one DB, particularly if you are using niche features.
Big tech companies do use it. Apple was advertising for Oracle DBA roles just last month. And consider that Amazon had to staff a massive multi-year project to migrate off it to their own in-house DB, which they only did because they had become a competitor.
W.R.T. unicorn type startups; yes, my argument is that they are all wrong and should be using a different database. There's competitive advantage to be had there.