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The problem with MySQL early on was exactly its feature set. Fifteen years ago it was very far behind Postgres yet much more popular. I do not think it even had

The problem with MySQL early on was exactly its feature set. Fifteen years ago it was very far behind Postgres yet much more popular. I do not think it even had InnoDB/transactions at that point (or almost no one used it), definitely did not have user defined functions, procedures and many other features developers took for granted in commercial RDBMS. Like MongoDB, it was popular mostly for being popular, which is a nice gig if you can get it.

jacobush 10y ago
Also it was fast on crappy hardware and easy to compile and setup. 80%. Better is worse. Unix.
- jpgvm 10y ago
  That is not Unix. Unix is small, composable, correct and 80% of what you need (you write the rest). It doesn't mean 20% of quality was sacrificed.
  - pvg 10y ago
    The original "worse is better" example is precisely about Unix making a trade-off in which it gives up on "correctness"