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codeulike 2 days ago

Barely any mention of Oracle or MS Sql Server, commonly reckoned to be #1 and #3 most used databases in the world

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

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qcnguy 2 days ago | parent [-]

Oracle is mentioned at the start, where he proclaims the "dominance" of Postgres and then admits its newest features have been in Oracle for nearly a quarter of a century already. The dominance he's talking about is only about how many startups raise how many millions from investors, not anything technical.

And then of course at the end he has a whole section about Larry Ellison, like always.

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sanderjd 2 days ago | parent [-]

Isn't it because it's about news, as in what's changing, rather than being about what's staying the same? He's a researcher, so his interests are always going to be more oriented toward new systems and new companies more than the big dominant systems.

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qcnguy 2 days ago | parent [-]

There's nothing technically new that he's covering here though? It's all just startups adding stuff to Postgres that Oracle had for decades already.

	▲	sanderjd 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The startups are new.