Comment Comment by samlambert I see the “Postgres is technology superior” take on hn all the time. Can you actually back that up?Can you explain why the dozens or so Postgres scale up solutions don’t use real Postgres?Or why anyone at scale with Postgres migrates away?https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/This outage would have been a lot less likely with MySQL because of redo logs which MySQL has had for a decade. But Postgres replication is under developed. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab...Facebook has evaluated every database on the planet and still uses MySQL. https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/core-infra/mysql/When MySQL has more users, can scale significantly more, runs some of the largest sites on earth, and even lends its storage engine to other databases like Dynamo you should backup your claims that Postgres is technically superior. Please. parent samlambert 3 years ago
Can you explain why the dozens or so Postgres scale up solutions don’t use real Postgres?
Or why anyone at scale with Postgres migrates away?
https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/
This outage would have been a lot less likely with MySQL because of redo logs which MySQL has had for a decade. But Postgres replication is under developed. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab...
Facebook has evaluated every database on the planet and still uses MySQL. https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/22/core-infra/mysql/
When MySQL has more users, can scale significantly more, runs some of the largest sites on earth, and even lends its storage engine to other databases like Dynamo you should backup your claims that Postgres is technically superior. Please.