Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Monday 14 Dec 2009 11:20:29 am Vamsee Kanakala wrote:
As for devising a plan, one need not do that, actually - open source
projects will obliterate Oracle - it's just a matter of time. If not
MySQL, probably MongoDB.
no hope for postgresql/
I'm assuming that's a question - if it is, then I'm not sure I'm
qualified to answer that - but just from a user/web developer
perspective, I would personally prefer postgresql in my projects, but
for various reasons (the major one being, I believe, easy replication -
makes it easier to scale) - MySQL has more or less become the default
choice for web development (that uses open source tools).
People don't choose postgresql unless they have good reasons to do so.
So I believe, the battle on that front has already been lost - I still
agree that postgresql is many ways much better than mysql - but some
features that mysql has make is the easy choice rather than postgresql.
I guess it's just being at the right place at the right time. But now,
the age of the RDBMS is about to be over (at least for startups -
enterprise will continue to use it for a few more decades I'm sure).
So we have the whole NoSQL movement and key-values stores, and MongoDB
provides a go-between - it retains some RDBMS features, in spite of
being a key-value store too. So I think, the future lies over there.
Hard to say, but that's just a hunch. Plus, MongoDB already has drivers
for pretty much all popular languages out there. So I guess it's only a
matter of time.
Vamsee.
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