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Postgres is winning the war with MySQL, if you're going to classify it that way. And from everything I've read and heard on HN, Postgres is constantly improving

Postgres is winning the war with MySQL, if you're going to classify it that way. And from everything I've read and heard on HN, Postgres is constantly improving on clustering/HA fronts.

threeseed 12y ago
No MySQL won many years ago. Every shared hosting provider uses the LAMP stack. And PostgreSQL has a pretty average scalability story. It lacks the simplicity of MongoDB or the flexibility of Cassandra or HBase. It needs a lot of work.
- neverminder 12y ago
  I wouldn't exactly call that winning. It's like saying that Justin Bieber won because he's so popular. The article seems to focus on features rather than popularity. Yes, MySQL will be used mostly by amateurs for a long time, because for all it's flaws it somewhat compensates with ease of usability. I as a professional however will celebrate the day my company finally finishes the move from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
- SideburnsOfDoom 12y ago
  > No MySQL won many years ago. Yeah, and Internet Explorer won many years ago. Then it lost. Because it stagnated while the others forged ahead.
- mindcrime 12y ago
  Every shared hosting provider uses the LAMP stack. The world is a LOT bigger than just shared hosting providers.