Isn’t that the point of Postgresql. It’s basically an open source version of MySQL.
I’m sure there are some proprietary nonsense that MySQL has, but I’ve never needed it in 17 years
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
sobchak@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.
msage@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
MySQL always sucked ass.
PostgreSQL went in a different direction, started with best support of the SQL standard, then optimized everything to make it fast.
Postgres has/had the best SQL standard support out of every server, open-source or not.
MySQL was at the other end, only started catching up after Oracle bought it.
Jajcus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That is an insult to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL was fully featured relational database even before it implemented SQL. It started much earlier tha MySQL.
And MySQL didn’t have proper transactions or data integrity constraints (including foreign keys) for long time, while calling itself an ‘SQL database’.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Thank you, I never had time to read up on its history when I was busy smashing out sites on stupid deadlines with constant last minute changes and morons for project managers.
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
MariaDB
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Hatred of Oracle predates “cancelling” by decades. Oracle is and has always been one of, if not the most disgusting and vicious companies in tech. They kill everything they touch.
If you need a political component, then Oracle = Larry Ellison, but Oracle hate predates and supercedes the American political slide into fascism.
s38b35M5@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was at a party about fifteen years ago. A guy introduced himself and we gabbed for a fee minutes. Then he asked what I do for work (IT sysadmin at the time) and I told him and asked the same. He said he was in sales for a tech company. I asked which one, and he stepped close and whispered, “Oracle.” I could see he was prepared for me to bring the hate. He saved himself when he told us he was actually leaving for a gig at Dell. Later, k learned from the host that he made that part about leaving up because he felt bad. I later learned he went to work for Nutanix. Poor guy hated his own employer, and it was obvious.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Nutanix…oof. I deal with them every day. It isn’t their fault their shit can’t handle what we do, but it is their sales folk that constantly lie and misrepresent.
Wanna know one of rhe big reasons people hate Oracle so much? It’s their sales guys. They are awful. If that guy went from Oracle to Nutanix, that tells me that I cannot trust a single syllable out of their mouth.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When they bought Sun, they:
- killed Solaris, effectively
- tried to kill zfs too
- nearly killed mysql with licensing audits
- became borderline evil with licensing practices
- acted like complete assholes in court, holding up cases for years
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sun was such a useful contributor to the ecosystem and they fucking trashed absolutely everything. It’s a miracle that so much stuff could be saved.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Oracle triggered a fork bomb.
dukatos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You forgot what they did to Java, plus they sued Google for using Java API.
hexmasteen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
and OpenOffice and VirtualBox
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh so it’s a greed thing, but not quite a Nestlé level of evil thing, then. Meh.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You clearly haven’t tried using one of there services APIs.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Only due to lack of capability, not desire.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why would you keep track? Can’t form your own opinions?!
And what the fuck hasn’t Oracle done? Like, seriously, they’ve been a known bad actor for literally decades now…
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry I don’t follow this company’s actions as closely as you do. I can’t even remember the last time I used Oracle-branded software.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“Lets use Oracle DB for that.”
Statements made by the utterly deranged.
fizzle@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
I don’t know the actual reason, but I personally get a bad vibe every time I see the logo because usually it means I’m trying to install or fix some java bullshit, which never goes well.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
People have hated Oracle for decades.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
how did the joke go? “one rich asshole called larry ellison”?
ijhoo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
what’s the joke part?
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It spells Oracle.