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Because we don't dare making bold decisions like:

* Throw out all MySQL/MariaDB installations and replaced them with PostgreSQL because it is objectively, provably better.

* Stop writing build-systems in untyped languages, because they are less productive when used by a team.

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>Throw out all MySQL/MariaDB

that's reaching. there are many successful software build on top of mysql/mariadb.

>replaced them with PostgreSQL because it is objectively, provably better

"provably better"? that's not reasonable enough.

> that's reaching. there are many successful software build on top of mysql/mariadb.

That doesn't make them better or even good. There is also successful software built on CGI scripts, but I'm not going to go and say that Go/Node/C#/etc aren't provably better than that.

I've used MySQL/MariaDB for over 10 years (as well as MSSQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL, SQLite and any others I forgot) and I've had minimal problems with them. No more problems than I've had with any other DB system.

Edit: I also used MongoDB and hated it.

Did you read the article? The author doesn’t mention any specific technologies as the source of the problem but instead the increase in expectations of what software can do, how it is made and the complexity incurred because of that.

I've used both MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL. They are perfectly equivalent and do their job pretty fine in my experience of 500req/s

Why is MariaDB worse than PG? Maria has temporal tables which I make great use of

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