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  • If the answer to the question is "MySQL" you are not asking the right question. : )

    • If the answer to the question is "MySQL" you are not asking the right question. : )
      I see the smiley face, but MySQL has served Slashdot extremely well over the years. The proof is in the pudding, no?
      • Thank you for noticing the smiley face.

        I would have to agree here. MySQL has warts? Really? Sure it does. That doesn't mean it isn't useful in certain situations. MySQL would not have become as popular as it is if it was crappy and didn't perform well in the area it was designed to run.

        • MySQL succeeded because historically it was easier to install and faster than any libre RDBMS, not because it wasnߣt crappy.

          • I am not arguing that...but I think you will actually find people who actually like and prefer MySQL. Such is the way of things.
            • The fundamental reason we chose MySQL was out of the box replication. Now, this was a couple of years ago so other open source RDBMS might have caught up by now but lack of replication did prove to be a major showstopper.

              Sure, for small apps, lack of replication is usually ok and a single DB server works just fine. When you're working on something a little bigger and you find yourself with 30+ DB hosts sitting behind a load balancer, you will be extremely happy with the replication options available to you in MySQL.

              Again, I haven't really kept up with the advances other open source RDBMS have made in the replication arena so perhaps MySQL is not the only game in town nowadays.
              • I don't think any of the other major libre RDBMS come with decent and/or out of the box replication.

                Postgres replication is still a 3rd party add on, and it doesn't come with commercial support either, oh and it can be backwards incompatible in undocumented ways between releases.

                Also it corrupts itself unless you vacuum the databases and is a resource hog.

                Despite all that it is still the right choice for some projects, just as mysql is for others.
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