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All these analysis both on HN an outside seem to miss it one logical conclusion: It doesn’t matter. At least for ~90% of the projects. People use MySQL becaus

All these analysis both on HN an outside seem to miss it one logical conclusion: It doesn’t matter. At least for ~90% of the projects. People use MySQL because it’s in the tutorial and it works, end of story.

e12e 5y ago
> It doesn’t matter. I think the issue is that there are so many different reasons projects need any storage. There's a reason why you need persistence, there's a reason why you need ACID, there's a reason you need some form of replication ... Eg: a cms like WordPress would probably have been better off just storing structured data in xml files on disk (or nfs) - along with media files on disk. Or using Berkeley db/later sqlite. Your point of sale terminals might not fare so well without central inventory.