I write software for a living, and have worked with all 3 database options in the past. I don't know what DB backend my nextcloud server is using, nor do I care.

"18% of car owners don't know their brake fluid DOT rating."

That is actually good news. Means that people more likely to be "normies" are adopting an alternative solution.

If you're running it in a prebuilt container, as long as it works it shouldn't matter and you don't need to care.

Of course, when your database gets corrupted after Nextcloud updates because you had an app running that isn't supported in the new version, it will suddenly matter a lot.

Whatever the docker compose file that I found had

I also have no idea if my place has PVC or galvanized steel plumbing; or its designed electrical load. Why should users care about the DBMS.

The rule of internet polls is that the funniest answer is always over-represented.

*18% of the people who answered a poll on Mastodon

I have five users, max, and barely any files. I don't know which one Nextcloud AIO uses and I don't care. There's no wrong answer for such a small deployment. It uses whatever database Nextcloud felt was sensible as the default. They know more about picking the right tool for their requirements than I do.

If I'm building something for myself, then I care.

Theres heaps of hosted nextcloud services. Those users wouldn't know.

Nextcloud is pushed as an easy to use docker setup these days, heck most people I know who "use" it don't do much with it at all so what database it is using is gonna be way back in their list of priorities...
Plus the users outweigh the admins surely (as in those that just install then forget)

Where's the option for "what's a database?"

If some of them are users rather than admins, it makes sense and maybe it's a good sign that they don't have to know in order to use the service.

Users is the right word here, not admin, not sysadmin, not owner. Docker pull docker up users that’s it

I mean.. I set it up many many years ago... Without looking it up I can also just guess.

Honestly I think if there is a hope for greater detach from "The Cloud" more broadly, it's a testament to nextcloud that folks that don't even know enough to know what DB they are running are able to run a server, and host things well enough to consider themselves users.

I don't even know myself because I installed it via YunoHost

Honestly, does it matter to a regular user?
There will be some that do matter, if I were to run NC I would use Lite because why throw the data to another process just to write it to a disk when I only have a single node.

Since Nextcloud stores your actually data on the disk, it doesn’t actually matter all that much tbh

It's awesome that you don't have to remember what software you're using underneath. I looked into it before I installed it, but I'd have to check which one I went with. I also have no idea what graphics card I'm using, which headset I'm using, what brand of eyeglass cleaner I'm using etc. I looked into it at the time, made a choice and promptly forgot about why and filled my brain with other things.

If I remembered which database I was running it means that I'd have enough problems with it that I'd look at it a lot.

What's a computer ?

Yes that's me. I have no idea what my Nextcloud uses

Who cares.
I'm only on MariaDB because I have brain worms, I have so little data on there SQLite would have been fine. 🪱 🪱 🪱

I can think of few things more boring than databases. I just want my files synced and stored.

That's because they push the all in one container.

And 46% have no idea what a database is.

People don't care and/or haven't looked at the serverinfo page. That actually mentions the type of database in use.

So the "I don't know" option was probably just the easiest.

I don’t think it matters

You could deploy a container and not know what DB is used

TIL that NextCloud can use an external database.

Are people here trying to "I run arch btw" database services.

I did know when I set it up, but I can't remember right now. I can easily go check though.

I’ve made a choice a while ago while deploying Nextcloud. Now I don’t care, as I trust myself that I have opted for something reasonable which was hopefully not SQLite

That’s how I’d answer if I set something up years ago and it was stable and never required me to come tinker with it.

You can install NextCloud with snap.

Should've specifically asked the operators/hosters if they need a better answer. But this has more engagement so

I set up everything I use "bare metal" or at least in an lxc container I directly build and maintain, but most people don't. Makes a lot of sense, to be honest. A lot of prepackaged software uses databases and nobody has to care exactly what it's up to.

I think that's really beautiful.