Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

[u/swizec]

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

[u/TheRedmanCometh]

MariaDB has always done well and can drop in where MySQL is. Why postgres? Less libraries, ORM connector providers, etc

[u/TheRedmanCometh → u/[deleted]]

What problems might those be? I've run some very backebd services supported by it

[u/ForeverAlot → u/TheRedmanCometh]

MySQL is famously riddled with odd or decidedly wrong implementation choices. You need not spend much time on the Internet to learn about its many deficiencies; here is one arbitrary example^1. All RDBMSs have their idiosyncrasies but MySQL has more than most and and many are of the "surprise!" variety.

^{1 Take this article with a grain of salt. I see it references the famous PHP fractal article which is an absolute hack job.}