Thread: 60% of Rails users now prefer Postgres
All, http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2012/8/14/rails-hosting-survey-2012-results-are-in Quite a turnabout, eh? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com
On Sep 11, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2012/8/14/rails-hosting-survey-2012-results-are-in > > Quite a turnabout, eh? Quite indeed :-) It makes sense especially since there are easy-to-use managed hosting services that operate on Postgres. The next big winwill be seeing more Postgres-specific features being utilized by app developers, and the 9.2 features should certainlyprovide incentive / ease-of-use. Further adapter development should help further the transition! Jonathan
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 03:01:17PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2012/8/14/rails-hosting-survey-2012-results-are-in > > Quite a turnabout, eh? FYI, the Postgres text is: In 2009, 80% of people said that they were using MySQL and 63% said that they preferred using said database server. This year, PostgreSQL eats up a large chunk of MySQL's market share. 40% of people said that they were using Postgres in production and 60% of people said that they wanted to use it in production. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
Hi, On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 15:01 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2012/8/14/rails-hosting-survey-2012-results-are-in > > Quite a turnabout, eh? Great. We are all seeing good interest on PostgreSQL everywhere. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
All,
http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2012/8/14/rails-hosting-survey-2012-results-are-in
Quite a turnabout, eh?
Having been reading the discussions surrounding my comparison of MySQL vs PostgreSQL (which appears to have been well received on both sides, interestingly) is that a lot of Rails users are sold on one feature, namely transactional DDL. They are getting sick and tired of back up, upgrade, oops it didn't work, time to restore from backup routine. Expecially in an agile environment where db schemas may change frequently, transactional DDL is a killer feature.
As a slight aside, I was talking with an Oracle DBA about edition-based revision features and he pointed out that it is not at all like transactional DDL because 1) it only addresses code in stored procedures and functions, and not table schemas etc, and 2) Editions are designed to be able to be rolled out in stages. We might want to update the wiki to remove that comparison.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers