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It's strange to me everyone touts Postgres but when you finally scale to a medium to large architecture HN has a handful of articles on great start-ups (now ful
by heimatau 10y ago
It's strange to me everyone touts Postgres but when you finally scale to a medium to large architecture HN has a handful of articles on great start-ups (now full fledge companies) switching FROM Postgres to MySQL. It's more efficient, atm, especially when accounting for labor. I wish the HN community would see that.
- falcolas 10y agoThere are more MySQL experts out there than there are PostgreSQL experts (though the number is still probably under 10,000 worldwide). MySQL replication and scaling is a well understood solution, and thoroughly battle tested. There are dozens of good solutions out there for handling near-instantaneous failovers, using little more than the tools provided by MySQL. It has a lot of problems, but when you need to scale, you can do so much more affordably with MySQL.