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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by kentosi on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:41PM (#16924024)
I think that the main reason for a long time was (a) being able to install mysql quickly, and (b) having a decent SQL UI, which was MySqlWorkbench.

Things might have changed now for Postgres.

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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by ExactoKnight on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:24PM (#16938008)
The thing is, features like Postgres' native UUID column types, JSONB and HStore are killer features that give developers data flexibility they didn't use to have before, meaning with one database I can go between relational or MongoDB-style JSON dumping where needed.

This, plus strong consistency to prevent shooting yourself in the foot, is valuable for 99% of use cases where you don't need insane web scale.

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