Re:It's the Postgres Age
by lmm on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @03:10PM
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Worse is better. MySQL's terribleness is its feature; it means you stop and think before putting business logic in the database, writing a stored procedure, or joining on five tables. While it's a worse database, the /systems/ I've seen built on MySQL are all better than those built on "real" databases.
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Re:It's the Postgres Age
by sliverstorm on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @03:14PM
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While it's a worse database, the /systems/ I've seen built on MySQL are all better than those built on "real" databases.
This could be a symptom of which businesses choose which databases. Large established businesses are probably going to prefer the commercially supported database, and are probably also going to have the resources to build impressive systems.
No, the trend (and I'm generalizing from a small number of examples) is in the opposite direction; it's the small businesses or startups that use MySQL and produce better systems. Slightly bigger companies use Postgres and produce worse systems. Actually big companies use Oracle and produce terrible systems.