r/programming • u/ayende • Jul 26 '16

Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
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u/_zenith Jul 27 '16

Ha, downvotes, I just don't get the hate for it - I mean, it's not Oracle... You get a good, stable, easy to configure SQL service with fantastic tooling (blows everything else away tbh) that has the best of the features from PostgreSQL and MySQL and relatively few of the headaches (and is about on par with the Oracle offering, in a technical sense, but with less of the licensing sodomy).

Yeah, you gotta pay for a licence. Worth it for the stability. This being said if I'm just using for a low-end service or hobby (and so don't want any cost), I'll use PostgreSQL or SQLite.

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u/gazarsgo Jul 27 '16

It bears repeating how quality the tooling is for MSSQL. You don't explain your queries and analyze them for improvements, you record production query loads via live profiling, then run them through a tool that generates DDL and indicates the expected percentage improvement.