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6. A lot more people available on the market with mysql familiarity 7. Wider support by libraries in virtually any language 8. Nearly guaranteed availability
by debaserab2 11y ago
6. A lot more people available on the market with mysql familiarity
7. Wider support by libraries in virtually any language
8. Nearly guaranteed availability in any web facing environment (think about WordPress - if it required Postgres, would it be as popular?)
This isn't to argue superiority in any sort of meaningful technical way - sometimes your data store decision isn't all about the technical bits, unfortunately.
- glogla 11y ago> This isn't to argue superiority in any sort of meaningful technical way - sometimes your data store decision isn't all about the technical bits, unfortunately. Quite often, actually. I have more than few customers demanding Oracle, because you can't have serious business without Oracle, right? Then they found out the price and started demanding Oracle XE for production use. Sigh.