Mysql on Nicola Iarocci https://nicolaiarocci.com/tags/mysql/ Recent content in Mysql on Nicola Iarocci Hugo -- 0.143.1 en Produced / Written / Maintained by Nicola Iarocci since 2010 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 07:05:25 +0100 A big nail in the coffin of MySQL https://nicolaiarocci.com/a-big-nail-in-the-coffin-of-mysql/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 07:05:25 +0100 https://nicolaiarocci.com/a-big-nail-in-the-coffin-of-mysql/ <p>After five years in Oracle&rsquo;s MySQL team, Steinar H. Gunderson resigned a few days ago. On the same day, he dropped the bomb on his <a href="https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2021-12-05-16-41_leaving_mysql">blog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>let me point out something that I&rsquo;ve been saying both internally and externally for the last five years (although never on a stage—which explains why I&rsquo;ve been staying away from stages talking about MySQL): <strong>MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead</strong><sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>.</p> After five years in Oracle’s MySQL team, Steinar H. Gunderson resigned a few days ago. On the same day, he dropped the bomb on his blog:

let me point out something that I’ve been saying both internally and externally for the last five years (although never on a stage—which explains why I’ve been staying away from stages talking about MySQL): MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead1.

As [@brandur][3] appropriately puts it, in the world of software engineering, it rarely gets more definitive than that. And authoritative, I might add, given both the role he covered at Oracle and his overall [track record][5]. The whole short post is worth reading2.

  1. Emphasis is mine. [3]: https://twitter.com/brandur/status/1467916216018903044 ↩︎

  2. Spoiler: he’s not nice to MariaDB either. [5]: https://www.sesse.net/ [rss]: https://nicolaiarocci.com/index.xml [tw]: http://twitter.com/nicolaiarocci [nl]: https://buttondown.email/nicolaiarocci ↩︎

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