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MySQL is the default sane choice for anything not 'big data' that was started before the year 2010 or so, and hasn't exactly disappeared since then.

• cgh 12y ago
  Was there something wrong with PostgreSQL before 2010? We used it and I thought it was pretty great (still do) but maybe I'm missing something.
  • jbooth 12y ago
    I wasn't using it, but it had a reputation for being slow and for the replication being considerably more broken than MySQL's -- apparently both of those have come a long way since.
  • lmm 12y ago
    It was hard to install for shared hosting, so most aspiring developers became familiar with MySQL first, with resulting network effects. The client was a bit harder to use (\x commands are harder to memorize than mysql's "SHOW TABLE" and felt sluggish in a local environment (something that's no longer the case AIUI)). Replication was a third party addon at the time, and had a reputation for being hairy, though I don't have direct experience.