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I highly doubt it because I was talking about enterprise companies. I honestly have no idea how common node is in general, including other organizations, but when it comes to enterprise companies, I do have an idea. My idea is that node isn't very common. I'm even more confident in relative terms: however common it is, it's less common than Java and .Net are.

As for cloud service SDKs, are you saying that many node backends rely on cloud SDKs?

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What's an 'enterprise company' lol? Many big banks have hundreds, if not thousands of nodejs-based backend services. Is Netflix[0] an 'enterprise company'? What about Walmart[1] ?

[0] https://www.bellcorpstudio.com/blog/how-netflix-is-using-nod... [1] https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/migrating-large-enterpr...

> As for cloud service SDKs, are you saying that many node backends rely on cloud SDKs?

Almost anything that uses a cloud service like DynamoDB is going to 'rely on cloud SDKs'... the language is irrelevant.

Incidentally, I see no evidence in those links or elsewhere that either Walmart or Netflix is using node to meditate interactions with upstream data sources. What I do see elsewhere is the usual suspects: some databases and message queues, and then lots of Java

https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/ep76-netflixs-tech-stack

An enterprise company is a large company that's not a tech company: banks, health care, finance, manufacturing, retail, etc. The proverbial "FAANG" companies are not enterprise.

Netflix is not enterprise. Walmart is.

As for DynamoDB, is that database more common, or less common, than relational databases like Oracle and MSSQL?

That's a cool definition of 'enterprise company' you got there.

Maybe google 'enterprise company' after you finish googling which database is more common.

Ok. How do you recommend I go about Googling it, and what do you predict will be the results?

> which database is more common.

SQLite is #1 by far, with MySQL a distant second.

Not in enterprise companies, it's not.

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