Blog Poll: What Operating System Do You Run Your Development Database On?

In this post, we’ll use a blog poll to find out what operating system you use to run your development database servers.

In our last blog poll, we looked at what OS you use for your production database. Now we would like to see what you use for your development database.

As databases grow to meet more challenges and expanding application demands, they must try and get the maximum amount of performance out of available resources. How they work with an operating system can affect many variables, and help or hinder performance. The operating system you use for your database can impact consumable choices (such as hardware and memory). The operating system you use can also impact your choice of database engine as well (or vice versa).

When new projects, new applications or services or testing new architecture solutions, it makes sense to create a development environment in order to test and run scenarios before they hit production. Do you use the same OS in your development environment as you do your production environment?

Please let us know what operating system you use to run your development database. For this blog poll, we’re asking which operating system you use to actually run your development database server (not the base operating system).

If you’re running virtualized Linux on Windows, please select Linux as the OS used for development. Pick up to three that apply. Add any thoughts or other options in the comments section:

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Thanks in advance for your responses – they will help the open source community determine how database environments are being deployed.