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Not a technical argument but I have a hard time using MySQL knowing Oracle is behind. Some relevant recent posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15166410

Not a technical argument but I have a hard time using MySQL knowing Oracle is behind. Some relevant recent posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15166410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15166410 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149 Also I think it had it's time, great tool in the early days of web dev but not very professional, sure it was improved in recent years but why put so much energy in it instead of other projects like MariaDB or PostgreSQL before, especially now that it's owned by Oracle? I'm amazed by webdev discussing languages, frameworks and the best stack endlessly and then spawning a MySQL without thinking and looking at alternatives like it was 2004.

teddyh 9y ago
Note that Debian uses (and migrates MySQL databases to) MariaDB by default since Debian 9 “stretch”, released in June.
thehardsphere 9y ago
Are you sure the webdevs discussing every language and the webdevs spawning MySQL are the same people? I mean, speaking purely about languages, there are lots of webdevs who just love PHP and will never consider an alternative to it, even if you make a persuasive argument that PHP is unsuited to the use case they're writing for. It's the same sort of "like it was 2004" mentality in a slightly different context. I actually wouldn't be surprised if that's what it is, because those are the M and P in the LAMP stack that everyone seems to have started learning at around that time. I don't mean to pick on PHP here; it's just the one I see the most that has this property.