MySQL is okay so long as "database" means "set of Excel sheets on a server". Honestly, that's what most web developers are comfortable with, what most ORMs targ

MySQL is okay so long as "database" means "set of Excel sheets on a server". Honestly, that's what most web developers are comfortable with, what most ORMs target, and, thusly, what many, many "databases" are at the end of the day. But it's worth noting that relational databases were designed with an entirely other use case in mind, one where the database provides far more functionality than "collection of Excel sheets". For these uses MySQL is a shitshow barely worth considering.