Around more than 250 stores in California Supermarkets have decided to create a new time tracker as well as regular attendance software for their 20,000 employees as oracle was not used by them for the database and at present the company is operating in previous versions.

"Just treat us so badly, with such contempt and arrogance," said Save Mart CIO James Sims in a recent interview. "I told them directly:" We will do everything possible not do business with you. In contrast, the Save Mart was with the open source Ingres database, which competes with the likes of Sun and MySQL EnterpriseDB.

Like other commercial open source companies, Ingres makes money by selling support contracts, and is presented as a more affordable alternative to purchase more licenses from Oracle, IBM DB / 2 or other databases. But it is still small compared to the giant U.S. clearing only in revenue during 2008, and still do not have the same level of features.

However, technology was sufficient for Save Mart system, which tracks and aggregates of workers in and out of time card blows, Sims said. It is fundamental to the application run correctly because of the state union and penalties Save Mart errors could be done as compensation of employees, he added.

The system "is not huge, but it works very efficiently," he said. "I would not be concerned about the application of income for a much larger-scale solution."
The New York investment bank Cowen Group Ingres is also using a new program for trading portal, which customers use to access financial data.

The application uses customer portal software as a front end, said Daniel Lino CIO. Users can view pre-analysis data sets, and do drill-downs and seek new types of information, "said Lino. Cowen is using the project as "proof" of Ingres, he said. The bank uses a variety of database products, including the platform of major players, "but declined to name them Lino.

Reviewed a range of databases for the portal project, including MySQL, Ingres, but decided, due to a combination of cost, maturity and features, said Lino. The company also had some uncertainty about the future of MySQL, which Sun is absorbed by Oracle, according to flax.

While Cowen and Save Mart have placed bets on Ingress’s database may not be ideal for all customers "There are a limited number of open source DBMSes with significant customer bases." "Of these, I would say that for the processing of transactions up to a certain size and complexity, Ingres is the most tested."

But others have many benefits like, he said. For instance if MySQL has an edge in ultimate scalability, and PostgreSQL which is being developed on EnterpriseDB – and even supports strongest data basically Ingres is an old-school, general-purpose DBMS which fell behind the state of the art in 1990s, but many do not need a perfectly good job. If you have extreme needs in some area or another, is likely not the product for you.