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Comment by thomascgalvin

You can tell a lot about a developer by their preferred database.

* Mongo: I like things easy, even if easy is dangerous. I probably write Javascript exclusively

* MySQL: I don't like to rock the boat, and MySQL is available everywhere

* PostgreSQL: I'm not afraid of the command line

* H2: My company can't afford a database admin, so I embedded the database in our application (I have actually done this)

* SQLite: I'm either using SQLite as my app's file format, writing a smartphone app, or about to realize the difference between load-in-test and load-in-production

* RabbitMQ: I don't know what a database is

* Redis: I got tired of optimizing SQL queries

* Oracle: I'm being paid to sell you Oracle

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