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> why didn't it try to improve Postgres Honestly, why would they? If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another. Just
by mhurron 10y ago
> why didn't it try to improve Postgres
Honestly, why would they? If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another.
Just because it's open source and they could spend money improving it, doesn't mean a company will spend that money improving it.
- mason55 10y ago> If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another. I would hardly say MySQL does what they need without any improvements. They built an entire second platform on top of it. https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/ https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/
- 0xmohit 10y agoMySQL does need improvements. This [0] is an example. [0] https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6 https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6