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Why It’s Time to Ditch MySQL

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And yet for most of us mysql is the best solution because it's installed on every linux server on the planet, and it just works very reliably for the majority of things you throw at it. Certainly you might need to rethink if you have a million users logging in, but the vast majority of installations won't have this issue.

> And yet for most of us mysql is the best solution because it's installed on every linux server on the planet

No it isn't. Maybe it's still installed on most shared web hosts (no idea, I haven't used one in years).

Typo, I meant virtually every linux server. And mysql still has a larger market share than any other free database. See for example: http://i0.wp.com/blog.jelastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...

> I meant virtually every linux server.

It isn't installed on virtually every linux server. It remains somewhat common, and if you're using a shared host you may not easily be able to use an alternative. In that situation, which I suspect to have been a minority situation for some years, it still makes sense to use mysql. For most of us, it makes sense to type the single line it takes for our package manager to install our database of choice.

Sorry, that's what I meant: available on every server as a package. My brain isn't working today. I've set up a whole bunch of different servers for customers over the years, and as you say it's normally a single line to install mysql from a package manager. Some of the other databases may or may not be so easy to install.

Anyway, the point I was making is that mysql is widely available and highly stable.

> Anyway, the point I was making is that mysql is widely available and highly stable.

So is postgres. In general there's no reason to recommend mysql, although it may be the right choice in some niches.

It _was_ installed on every Linux server on the planet. Pretty much all of them are abandoning it for MariaDB.

Uh, MySql was acquired by Oracle, and Oracle has a big money-maker in their DB system. They have no reason to provide anything beyond the absolute minimum support for MySql.

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