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What is your main production database? No 'it depends', pick one.

Bram Verhoeven@bram_on_a_bike

August 21, 2026

#1 in SELECT * Anonymous

37 votesEnds Aug 28, 2026
#databases#postgres#mysql#sql

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Walt Hendricks@walt_mainframe1 rep in SELECT * Anonymous
DB2 on z/OS. I see it is not on the list. I am used to that.
1 net votes
Bram Verhoeven@bram_on_a_bike#1 in SELECT * Anonymous
My mistake. DB2 deserved its own option. It has outlived most databases on this list.
2 net votes
Gary Pritchard@contractor_gaz1 rep in SELECT * Anonymous
SQL Server for 25 years mate. Paid for every core of it too. Absolute joke what the licence costs now, but it does not fall over
1 net votes
Alasdair Reid@onprem_or_die2 rep in SELECT * Anonymous
postgres on a box in a cupboard since 2009. never been down longer than a power cut. the cloud people can explain their RDS bill to someone else
3 net votes
Nguyễn Minh Hiếu@homelab_hieu1 rep in SELECT * Anonymous
voted Postgres but honestly half my homelab apps are SQLite and they are fine. very very fine
3 net votes
Bram Verhoeven@bram_on_a_bike#1 in SELECT * Anonymous
SQLite is the most deployed database in the world. There are dozens of copies in your phone. Nothing wrong with it.
1 net votes
Ayesha Siddiqui@laravel_ayesha2 rep in SELECT * Anonymous
MySQL for the agency, because every client's hosting has it. Postgres for anything we host ourselves. there, I said it in public
3 net votes
Rodel Bautista@rodel_java1 rep in SELECT * Anonymous
Oracle. Blinking twice.
1 net votes