@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
PostgreSQL to get precedence today and Oracle to be an afterthought.
Especially considering oracles prices are plain crazy. Though dynamics isn't exactly cheap.
Cost is a factor but not the big one. PostgreSQL is up there in the top echelons of enterprise databases today (it's what IBM ran internally when I was there and IBM owns Informix and DB2!!) and is what most modern development platforms (like Ruby on Rails) as their de facto standard and what most large hosting environments (Heroku, OpenShift) provide as their standard relational database. That is pretty what has propelled it from being a big player to being the database to beat in recent years.
PostgreSQL and SQL Server will likely be the last two big players that matter in the RDBMS space. Even MySQL / MariaDB is fading from the PostgreSQL onslaught these last few years.
The big competition for both is coming from the NoSQL camp, not other RDMBSs.