Hey, Threadiverse! I’m looking for informed opinions on database choices.

I can stand up an Internet-facing application and have it use either MySQL or PostgreSQL. Which is the better choice, and why do you think so?

Thanks!

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    23 hours ago

    As somebody who just watched a team implement MySQL for an app that only supported Postgres, I’d go with Postgres.

    I never want to use MySQL again. Postgres or SQLite for relational databases.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      123·
      23 hours ago

      Ha! My deepest experience with postgres was watching it fall over and wedge daily when run behind red hat’s satellite (the flailing lame foreman one, not spacewalk).

      Wow, was it ever a dog. Yeah, I get it: the company who shat Systemd on the planet can’t be asked to do much better, but still.