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Is Postgres really perceived as "Old-School?" I mean it's at least as modern and hip as MySQL these days.
by joncrane 9y ago
Is Postgres really perceived as "Old-School?" I mean it's at least as modern and hip as MySQL these days.
- sharms 9y agoI consider it modern, especially the great changes brought forth in 9.x and 10.x. Multi-node databases, big data partitioning, replication are all areas which are still evolving for all sorts of data stores. Postgres certainly has been around for awhile, but to say the code is old is inaccurate. Evolved might be a better way to state it.
- astrodust 9y agoAt least? 9.x removed some of the last barriers to adoption, like having a simple replication strategy, and now we're already on to 10.1. The release notes for each version on Postgres highlight dozens of important new features: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10 https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10 That team is crushing it. Meanwhile MySQL has gone from 5.5 to 5.7 and added JSON columns and a bit of InnoDB tuning.
- cwyers 9y agoI think they mean in comparison to Mongo/Cassandra/etc., not other relational databases.
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- dep_b 9y agoIt's the thing everybody fled to once MySQL got Oraclized. It was always a bit more superior in terms of features and reliability but once Larry Ellison appeared with his whip people really started running.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoIt came out earlier than last week. Definitely "old-school" for some.
- astrodust 9y agoThree JavaScript frameworks and a dozen political scandals ago.