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Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? by glogla on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:04AM (#15173532)
> - synchronous multi-master cluster (Galera, Group Replication)

Which doesn't work, see [1]. What other features of those you listed the authors claim that work, and just don't when you look deeper?

Lot of the big companies are using MySQL as a NoSQL database, and that's not a bad way to use MySQL, but it's a pretty bad relational database, see [2].

[1]: https://aphyr.com/posts/327-call-me-maybe-mariadb-galera-clu...

[2]: https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

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Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? by kaamos on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:10AM (#15173569)
Let me just tell you that I've read both links before.
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Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? by zimpenfish on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:32AM (#15173663)
If you've read the aphyr link with this (and the rest of his conclusion):

> Unfortunately, even in totally healthy clusters, with no node failures or network failures, Galera Cluster does not satisfy its claims of Snapshot Isolation

...how on earth can you straight-facedly claim that it's a plus point for MySQL over PostgreSQL?

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