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radiospiel 44 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: PostgreSQL for Everything

Well, the poster explicitly talks about 2003 here: „ In 2003, MySQL was much more widely used than PostgreSQL. MySQL was also potentially faster as it did not implement all features of the SQL standard“

browningstreet 44 days ago | [–]

At the time, MySQL was also the default for every PHP backed webhost provider. That's the market they lost. They're the Perl of DBs.

actionfromafar 44 days ago | [–]

Didn't very early mysql play fast and loose with the concept of actually syncing to disk? That was also fast. Web scale fast. :)

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