Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Which databases are the most used with Java Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:06:46 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87zib3ot3t.fsf@munus.decebal.nl> References: <87y3qovwjb.fsf@munus.decebal.nl> <87tw1bx2c9.fsf@munus.decebal.nl> <87k227qhf2.fsf@munus.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b5e51ead2eb93bf4772adfe6a7284a95"; logging-data="25212"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19zyVoRUbxWvxsl80D0qanZv6NkGE0deYA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VlVRlo9K0VKUAIUP+ZpcFAfJcMQ= sha1:K1sN20GRDZF1PHDPszLLfoucXVE= X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:37215 Arne Vajhøj writes: > On 8/13/2017 5:36 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Arne Vajhøj writes: >>> On 8/13/2017 12:08 PM, Sebastian wrote: >>>> Back to the original question: In 15 years of development work for midle >>>> to large sized companies I have never seen an open source database used >>>> in the production environment, it's mostly Oracle, SQLServer, and DB2, >>>> with the single exception of PostgreSQL. >>> >>> There are also sites that use MySQL in production. >> >> I understood that H2 is also used at a lot of places. > > Maybe. > > My subjective impression is that H2 is common on development but not > production. I did not follow it very closely, but on the H2 mailing list I have seen several times queries about production inquiries. (For example that the latest stable is very old and if the unstable could be used.) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof