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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Isn’t that the point of Postgresql. It’s basically an open source version of MySQL.

I’m sure there are some proprietary nonsense that MySQL has, but I’ve never needed it in 17 years

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.

[–] msage@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago

MySQL always sucked ass.

PostgreSQL went in a different direction, started with best support of the SQL standard, then optimized everything to make it fast.

Postgres has/had the best SQL standard support out of every server, open-source or not.

MySQL was at the other end, only started catching up after Oracle bought it.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 25 points 7 months ago

afaik MariaDB is the open source version of MySQL

[–] Jajcus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That is an insult to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL was fully featured relational database even before it implemented SQL. It started much earlier tha MySQL.

And MySQL didn't have proper transactions or data integrity constraints (including foreign keys) for long time, while calling itself an 'SQL database'.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Thank you, I never had time to read up on its history when I was busy smashing out sites on stupid deadlines with constant last minute changes and morons for project managers.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago