In this survey I learned that dBase/Clipper, as well as Access, are relational databases. I actually liked working with XBase back in the 80s, but I don't miss

In this survey I learned that dBase/Clipper, as well as Access, are relational databases. I actually liked working with XBase back in the 80s, but I don't miss not having foreign key constraints enforced, not having transactions, having long data values truncated, not being able to take a backup while running. Early MySQL was too much like XBase for my taste, whereas PostgreSQL felt like a "real" database. I realize the InnoDB backend makes data integrity a bit more of a priority, but MySQL always felt like "worse is better", even if a bunch of "will code HTML for food" 90s internet crack heads helped make it ubiquitous. Windows is ubiquitous, and that doesn't mean much to me.