Why It’s Time to Ditch MySQL

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by ohjeez • 13 years ago

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cpncrunch3• 13 years ago

And yet for most of us mysql is the best solution because it's installed on every linux server on the planet, and it just works very reliably for the majority of things you throw at it. Certainly you might need to rethink if you have a million users logging in, but the vast majority of installations won't have this issue.

tanglesome• 13 years ago

It _was_ installed on every Linux server on the planet. Pretty much all of them are abandoning it for MariaDB.

Joeboy3• 13 years ago

And yet for most of us mysql is the best solution because it's installed on every linux server on the planet

No it isn't. Maybe it's still installed on most shared web hosts (no idea, I haven't used one in years).

cpncrunch3• 13 years ago

Typo, I meant virtually every linux server. And mysql still has a larger market share than any other free database. See for example: http://i0.wp.com/blog.jelastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...

agoandanon• 13 years ago

Uh, MySql was acquired by Oracle, and Oracle has a big money-maker in their DB system. They have no reason to provide anything beyond the absolute minimum support for MySql.

Why It’s Time to Ditch MySQL

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