Which RDBMS do you feel best suits the needs of today's climate of rapid change and iteration?

Engineering

SQLite8%

CouchDB16%

PostgreSQL28%

MongoDB28%

SQLServer18%

1421 PARTICIPANTS
12.2k viewscircle icon3 Upvotescircle icon10 Comments
Sort by:
VP of IT2 years ago

It all depends of the use cases harder to answer without that.

VP of Engineering in Banking2 years ago

MongoDB and CouchDB are not RDBMS. Not sure the intention of the question is.

Lightbulb on2
Chief Information Technology Officer in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

SQLServer carries over a considerable number of legacy apps and code on it, but many of the others are more suitable for RD. Surprised not seeing mySQL on the list... 

Director & Head of Engineering in Software4 years ago

I think DB's planet scale can offer a different view on RDBMS usage.

Lightbulb on4
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer4 years ago

I had trouble pointing one database. Some are relational, some are document databases. It's like comparing a hammer and a screwdriver, which is better? When comparing databases agnostically of the purpose, then I'd choose security, performance, scalability, and availability as the main parameters.

Lightbulb on3

Content you might like

How do you get your business stakeholders more invested in your team’s agile workflows?

Read More Comments

Has your organization found success using AI tools for UX?

Yes, we’re doing this successfully20%

Too early to say — we’ve just implemented AI UX tools60%

No, AI tools were not a good fit for UX10%

N/A, we haven’t tried this10%

View Results

How long does your organization retain original systems logs used to filter SOX-related actions into a system that requires review of the logs and retains the filtered logs for seven years? Does your organization consider those original system logs records subject to record retention requirements, or supporting information used to create the SOX records?

90 Days20%

365 Days40%

3 years40%

5 years

7 years

Other (share in the comments)

View Results

Which tech conference do you intend to attend in person next year or have already participated in this year, and what motivated your choice?

Read More Comments

What are some clear signs that a software team needs an organizational redesign? And how would you convince the C-suite that those changes are necessary?