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I've nothing against Postgres but MySQL is a wonderful option that is likely still in far higher and heavier use, when considering open source databases.
by circusfly 3y ago
I've nothing against Postgres but MySQL is a wonderful option that is likely still in far higher and heavier use, when considering open source databases.
- LtWorf 3y agoI think it gained popularity over a decade ago, when it was faster because it was unsafe. In the end postgres is the better one. With mysql the defaults are bad.
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- kstrauser 3y agoIn my mind, MySQL no longer exists. It’s a weird Oracle thing that I wouldn’t touch with a lineman’s pole. MariaDB is what happened after MySQL disappeared.
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- wlll 3y agoI wrote this in another comment, but it's relevant here I think: " I do scaling and performance work, mostly with Rails apps, but a significant amount of the work is database level and not language specific. I've used both postgres and MySQL (and a few other databases) going back to 2000. The best thing I can hear from a company when I start is "We use Postgres". If they're using postgres then I know there's likely a far smoother path to performance than with MySQL. It has better tooling, better features, better metadata. " Right now I would not choose MySQL over Postgres at all, ever. I can't think of a single way it is materially better.
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