If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done.\n
  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      2 days 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

      • Jajcus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days 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’.

      • sobchak@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 days 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.devEnglish
          1·
          2 days 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.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 days 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.

      • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        The hell did Oracle do?

        Have you been living under a rock? Think 2010 for starters…

      • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days 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
        • dukatos@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          You forgot what they did to Java, plus they sued Google for using Java API.