No one should be using MySQL since 2010.
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Perhaps MariaDB is a better choice.
What year is this? No one should be using Mysql since MariaDB came about.
If you don't want to use postgresql for some obscure reason use MariaDB real open source MySQL drop in replacement.
What rock do you live under if you're using MySQL over MariaDB?
when is Oracle gonna go Broadcom mode on MySQL, still waiting for the moment 🍿
Why would anyone ever choose mysql over postgres?
MySQL has been the "default" choice for a long time for PHP programmers. I don't know why.
It used to be free with less of a barrier to entry than postgres
Tutorials mostly.
LAMP indeed
We need LAPP . Stat!
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Hmm, MySQL or PostgreSQL—how will we ever decide which one to pick.
wow, I didn't need any more reasons not to support Oracle but thanks anyway
MariaDB >>>
I've been using it since ever on my rpi because they say it's easier on resources
Who are “they”?
We use MariaDB at work but I don’t know why it was originally chosen over PostgreSQL, as that was before my time.
Are there real advantages to using either MySQL or MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL?
If you're constrained by resources (CPU/RAM).
There's a reason most web hosts usually have mariadb and not postgres.
Maybe that once every 2 years when you upgrade to major version it does it automatically? You save 15 mins every 2 years?
No. But there are a number of advantages of using PostgreSQL over the others.
Operating and securing Postgres is a steeper learning curve. MariaDB is more forgiving for best-effort shoestring setups without compensating scalability for it.
As a dev I'm agnostic, as an owner and computer scientiest I prefer Postgres, as a sysadmin or *Ops I will put my hand up for MariaDB any day if I'll be on call or maintain deployments.
Is Maria that much better than MySQL?
Cause that one is absolute shit, very difficult to maintain, and requires lots of config changes and even replicas can disconnect when something's not 100% ok.
I will take Postgres over any other DB any day of the week.
Is Maria that much better than MySQL?
MariaDB is MySQL's fork, initiated by the main developers, so...
Yeah,
I did a speed test comparison between Oracle MySQL and MariaDB MySQL,
MariaDB is about 10 times faster.
FYI: When Oracle bought MySQL a lot of developers left and created MariaDB, so the brains behind the project moved, and in the meantime Oracle did a great job of fucking things up.
That's not what I asked. I asked about a comparison of both of them to PostgreSQL.
Oh misread my bad,
not much experience with PostgreSQL
MySQL often has moderately higher performance (particularly for workloads where you want your data clustered by PK, which is how InnoDB is natively structured) and its replication system is much more flexible than either of PostgreSQL's. I like Percona personally, but MariaDB is fine too.
Is it true?
Postgres with correct fillfactor, it doesn't create new pages and works very fast.
Replication in MySQL always sucked ass, only received synchronous replication in some new edition, and that also didn't sound great.
Postgres has logstream and logical replication, both of them can be set to various levels of synchronicity, and logical replication is configurable at least as well as MySQL is in terms of which data is sent.
Depends on the task but for general usage there is no big difference. You would choose one over the other if you need one for work.
MariaDB is not always a drop-in replacement. There's several features that MySQL has that MariaDB doesn't, especially related to the optimizer (for some types of queries, MySQL will give you a more optimized execution plan compared to MariaDB). It's also missing some newer data types, like JSON (which indexes the individual fields in JSON objects to make filtering on them more efficient).
MariaDB and MySQL are both fine. Even though MySQL doesn't receive as much development any more, it doesn't really need it. It works fine. If you want a better database system, switch to PostgreSQL, not MariaDB.
That's why I moved to MSSQL
/s
Dude. You never finish.
But but but, it has the word “my” in it
/s
I didn't know this was ever in question?
Also stop calling it "my sequel"
stop calling it "my sequel"
Why?
Sequel is Microsoft. S-Q-L is Linux.
Microsoft's is "squeal". Like a pig. When you get the bill.
Apache Phoenix: allow me to introduce myself
Who?