Just my experience, but there are a whole bunch of optimizations one can make to "official" recent MySQL versions before having to switch platforms, even to mos

Just my experience, but there are a whole bunch of optimizations one can make to "official" recent MySQL versions before having to switch platforms, even to mostly compatible ones as mentioned in the post. Yes, Oracle ownership can be a reason to switch, but if you don't want to, don't just assume the thing can't scale til you hit the point of "more hassle than it's worth". Premature optimization and all that.