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MySQL still isn't on par or better than its most comparable peer, Postgres. It's still nowhere near as terrible as Mongo, but let's not pretend it's amazing whe
by lucian1900 13y ago
MySQL still isn't on par or better than its most comparable peer, Postgres. It's still nowhere near as terrible as Mongo, but let's not pretend it's amazing when it's merely serviceable.
- regularfry 13y agoMySQL replication is the one place it's got the edge.
- ingrownpsyche 13y agoIs it not the case that back in the day MySQL was better suited to running small to medium website backends with simple schemas out of the box? I know this hasn't been the case for a long time but I think it might be a contributing factor to MySQL's success.
- jfb 13y agoThe advantages were ease of installation on Windows, and network effects.
- amix 13y agoPostgres got proper non-hackable replication in version 9... And it still isn't that great.
- asdasf 13y ago"Isn't that great" how? In that it imposes a bunch of limitations on you? Or that it frequently breaks and slaves have to be manually syned? Oh wait no, I was thinking of mysql.