1. Ottertune doesn't sell PostgreSQL services, they sell a database optimization service that happens to support PostgreSQL (and other databases like MySQL)
2. PostgreSQL is definitely gaining market shares and fast, see the db-engine graph [1], you can compare it to the oracle trend if you are not convinced [2]
[1] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/system/PostgreSQL
> Number of job offers, in which the system is mentioned
its not a silver bullet, but I do think its at least somewhat representative of popularity.
A ML program that automatically tunes your production database in real-time. What could possibly go wrong?
https://ottertune.com/blog/prevent-machine-learning-from-wre...
We also advise our customers to not point OtterTune at a production database right away.
Either way nothing to suggest that PostgreSQL is any way dominating.
Heroku has https://www.heroku.com/postgres
Fly.io - https://fly.io/docs/reference/postgres/
and lots more of these pretty small players - that still drive adoption.
Then it's very well support on AWS / GCP / Azure
So postgresql is just crushing it in terms of adoption.
I honestly have not seen major Oracle offering in a bit.
Looking at what tech companies are building on is oracle a major player these days. They used to be THE pretty much only player - those days feel gone by now.