MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.
Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
Submitted 8 hours ago by otto@programming.dev to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql/
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
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
sobchak@programming.dev 43 minutes 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.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
how did the joke go? “one rich asshole called larry ellison”?
Psythik@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I can’t keep track of all this shit we’ve csnceled. The hell did Oracle do?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 hours 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.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 hours 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
forrgott@lemmy.zip 4 hours 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…
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
“Lets use Oracle DB for that.”
Statements made by the utterly deranged.
fizzle@quokk.au 5 hours 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.
melfie@lemy.lol 2 hours ago
Oracle sees itself as an activist organization, one whose goal is the advancement of the Israeli colonization project. Safra Catz, the company’s Israeli-American CEO, bluntly explained that any employees uncomfortable with supporting a genocide should simply quit. “We are not flexible regarding our mission, and our commitment to Israel is second to none”
Hmm, MySQL or PostgreSQL—how will we ever decide which one to pick.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Stop using mysql, you have postgres.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
And mariaSQL
immobile7801@piefed.social 2 hours ago
FWIW mariadb was bought by a private equity firm in 2024
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Hell, even SQLite is good enough for most small projects.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
MariaDB >>>
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Who are “they”?
We use MariaDB at work but I don’t know why it was originally chosen over PostgreSQL, as that was before my time.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Are there real advantages to using either MySQL or MariaDB instead of PostgreSQL?
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
No. But there are a number of advantages of using PostgreSQL over the others.
kumi@feddit.online 2 hours ago
Operating and securing Postgres is a steeper learning curve.
Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Yeah,
I did a speed test comparison between Oracle MySQL and MariaDB MySQL,
MariaDB is about 10 times faster.FYI: When Oracle bought MySQL a lot of developers left and created MariaDB, so the brains behind the project moved, and in the meantime Oracle did a great job of fucking things up.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
That’s not what I asked. I asked about a comparison of both of them to PostgreSQL.
roguelazer@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
MySQL often has moderately higher performance (particularly for workloads where you want your data clustered by PK, which is how InnoDB is natively structured) and its replication system is much more flexible than either of PostgreSQL’s.
illusionist@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Depends on the task but for general usage there is no big difference. You would choose one over the other if you need one for work.
dan@upvote.au 5 hours ago
MariaDB is not always a drop-in replacement. There’s several features that MySQL has that MariaDB doesn’t, especially related to the optimizer (for some types of queries, MySQL will give you a more optimized execution plan compared to MariaDB). It’s also missing some newer data types, like JSON (which indexes the individual fields in JSON objects to make filtering on them more efficient).
MariaDB and MySQL are both fine. Even though MySQL doesn’t receive as much development any more, it doesn’t really need it. It works fine. If you want a better database system, switch to PostgreSQL, not MariaDB.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 57 minutes ago
Dude. You never finish.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
That’s why I moved to MSSQL
/s
fizzle@quokk.au 5 hours ago
I didn’t know this was ever in question?
Also stop calling it “my sequel”
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
But but but, it has the word “my” in it
/s
folekaule@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Both MySQL and MariaDb are named after the developer’s daughters.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Apache Phoenix: allow me to introduce myself
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Who?
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 54 minutes ago
Why would anyone ever choose mysql over postgres?