Re: Uber moving towards MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Uber moving towards MySQL
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Msg-id 5797DD74.309@commandprompt.com
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In response to Uber moving towards MySQL  (Santiago Zarate <santiago@zarate.net.ve>)
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On 07/26/2016 02:57 PM, Santiago Zarate wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> Has anyone read the following article?, i'm personlally inclined to
> think that some of these problems could have been addressed with enough
> expertise.

It is being discussed on -hackers and -general right now.

>
> At our company we may move to PostgreSQL for one of our core products
> (we use oracle), and a colleague came with this today. While this
> started a very heated discussion on our side... I wonder, what do you
> guys think

I think they have some valid points, especially around:

Inefficient data replication
Poor replica MVCC support
Difficulty upgrading to newer releases

Whilst Berkus brought up:

Inefficient architecture for writes


They are all good points but Oracle certainly has its own list too.

Sincerely,

JD

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