Your DBA friend is stuck in 2000's. Let dinosaurs die and you go with PGSQL because is superior to MySQL on everything. And don't take my word for it, see for

Your DBA friend is stuck in 2000's. Let dinosaurs die and you go with PGSQL because is superior to MySQL on everything. And don't take my word for it, see for yourself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab... And MySQL is an Oracle product these days, go with MariaDB instead as this one is a MySQL fork made by the original papa of MySQL.