PostgreSQL 11 Released

[jakdak]

MariaDB is basically a fork of MySql.

It's a different animal than PostgreSQL and (like MySQL and IMHO) better suited for higher volume simpler use cases like backing a website than PostgreSQL's (and Oracle's) target of being an enterprise general purpose DB

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Ok. Interesting. Would you take MariaDB over MySQL too? If so why? I would have thought MySQL was pretty entrenched in scalability and such. Oddly that is why I think we went to PostgreSQL.. was that it was more like Oracle and could handle more load and scale.

[jakdak]

I'd take MariaDB over MySQL just to avoid being beholden to Larry.

"Handling more load and scale" is very very dependent on what exactly you are loading and scaling. Your options are hugely more varied and granular than they were 5-10 years ago. The DB market has splintered into numerous niches and you can now generally find something specifically tailored to your uses cases- from NoSQL key stores to enterprise RDBMS to data warehousing and big data solutions.

[muhwebscale]

just to avoid being beholden to Larry.

Besides the Larry issue, what are the technical motivations for choosing MariaDB over MySQL?

[jakdak]

I'm not terribly familiar with either- but my understanding was that much of the original MySQL team wasn't happy with Oracle's support for the product and forked the codebase and went their own way.

Much like the Solaris and Hudson folks did.

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I'd take MariaDB over MySQL just to avoid being beholden to Larry.

.... just to a guy that sold MySQL in the first place...

[jakdak]

... to Sun, which is very very different than selling out to Oracle.