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Personally, when I want speed or easy upkeep and intend on doing dumb simple things. Postgres is more featureful, but if you don't intend on using those featur

Personally, when I want speed or easy upkeep and intend on doing dumb simple things. Postgres is more featureful, but if you don't intend on using those features, MySQL is consistently faster and historically smoother to update and keep running.

busterarm 6y ago
Also in the Enterprise, if you're doing a lot of sharding and replication across networks, Percona MySQL is a very compelling product. I say that as a Postgres diehard.
twic 6y ago
> MySQL is consistently faster Unless you want to do a join.