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Changing databases on an existing application doesn't happen, but I've worked across teams within a single company for ~8 years and in that time I've used:

1. SQL Server

2. MySQL

3. Neo4j (very briefly)

4. PostgreSQL

5. DynamoDB

Each of those was for a different set of applications, and none of those applications changed database, but point being sometimes an engineer will be made to use a variety of databases in their career, even sometimes within the same company (although you could also chalk this up to a particularly laissez-faire style of tech direction).



Exactly.

In our case company was strictly "Oracle-only", but one team did a quick implementation in startup-style of Rails and used mysql. No one forced them to migrate to oracle, company just hired DBAs that now mysql.




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