It's the Postgres Age

Re:It's the Postgres Age by dkhenry on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @03:14PM (#4014791)

I wonder how posts like this make it to the front page. This is clearly a opinionated and poorly researched article that gives no evidence for any of its claims, except that a few features this user wants are included in PostgreSQL. There is still plenty of space PostgreSQL has to make up before it is better then MySQL in every way. The knowledge gap alone is enough to keep MySQL around.

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Re:It's the Postgres Age by dickeytk on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @03:26PM (#4014847)

where does postgres need to catch up? and what knowledge gap?

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Re:It's the Postgres Age by dkhenry on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @03:48PM (#4014950)

The knowledge gap is how much industry knowledge there is about how MySQL preforms in large scale applications, and the amount of people who can help you tune it. Because MySQL has such a large deployment base there is a whole industry around performance tuning and its easyt to find an engineer who has experience using it. Even if they were technically equal which they aren't that one aspect alone would tip the scales to MySQL

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