On Dec 31, 2014 1:37 AM, "Noufal Ibrahim KV" <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30 2014, Gora Mohanty wrote: > > > On 30 December 2014 at 19:32, Noufal Ibrahim KV <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote: > > [...] > >> I can't offer anything normative but in my experience (and it's a little > >> dated since I don't use mySQL for anything these days), mySQL is a > >> disaster waiting to hit you. > > > > [...] > > > > Personally, I agree with this, but such arguments often degenerate > > into flamewars. IMHO, it comes down to a matter of knowing your tools, > > and what use-cases they can meet. Sometimes, mysql can be what one > > needs. > > [...] > > They're both RDBMs. Unless you have legacy stuff to support or are tied > down to mySQL for any non tech. reason, I can't really think of how it > would be what one needs.
For example, MySQL MyISAM is fast for read replica. Again MyISAM is terrible choice for write. Migrating from MySQL to postgres is really technical debt. Said that postgres quirks very little and ahead of mysql in features. Lot of companies cant migrate to postgres because incoming data is large. Companies choose MySQL knowing lot of consulting companies are around like percona, example quora. > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
