How to Efficiently Choose the Right Database for Your Applications

Re:How to Efficiently Choose the Right Database for Your App... by zozbot234 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:24AM (#26293588)

Legacy. MySQL used to be very popular in the late-90s and early-2000s as part of a broader MySQL+PHP web stack. But that was before PostgreSQL got good enough (including wrt. performance) for that sort of simple use case. Nowadays, there's really no reason not to go for Postgres.

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Re:How to Efficiently Choose the Right Database for Your App... by dugmartin on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:35PM (#26295102)

I also think it was because MySQL didn’t require vacuuming so small hosting providers and resellers didn’t have to deal with support issues around that. I know when I was looking around in the late 90s for a database it was a deciding element for me.

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