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>>ksec+(OP)
yeah but it's Oracle. You want MariaDB now.

>>direwo+mZd
I prefer PostgreSQL. Don't see any advantage of MySQL/Maria.

>>Hacker+i7e
A few major areas where MySQL/MariaDB excels:

Threaded connection model (no process spawning)

Undo-based MVCC (no need for vacuum)

InnoDB's use of a clustered index for PK (has pros/cons, but better for some workloads)

Ability to use alternative storage engines such as MyRocks (LSM based instead of B-tree; best-in-class compression)

Support for index hints (so query plans won't randomly change and bring your site down)

More mature logical replication (fully supports DDL, has no concept of limited "replication slots", etc)

That all said, there are also many areas where Postgres is better! Like all things in computer science, there are architectural trade-offs, and no single silver bullet is the best choice for all workloads.

>>evanel+Cje
Your list confirms that MySQL is irrelevant to me.

>>waynes+2oe
That's totally fine, there are many workloads where Postgres is the best choice! I'm not forcing you to use it, I was just responding to the comment upthread about lack of advantages. It's kind of bonkers that the anti-MySQL crowd is so rabid that any attempt to explain legitimate use-cases for MySQL is met with a barrage of downvotes, especially in a submission that is directly about MySQL specifically :/