Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 26, 2016, 4:32 PM UTC

markhops wrote: post #179

Stupid question here: what are serial keys, and how do they impose locks?

Post by juped » Fri, May 27, 2016, 7:50 PM UTC

ngrilly wrote: post #58

danudey wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on my experience: MySQL is significantly easier to set up, and it's much easier to admin. PG still seems to do the thing where it assumes your system user is your database user unless you do a bunch of things, and the weird blurred lines between the operating system and the database can get really confusing at the start. On top of that, MySQL is well-documented and lots of people use it for lots of different th…

> On top of that, MySQL is well-documented I seriously disagree with that. Documentation is one of MySQL's weakness, especially compared to PostgreSQL which is known to have one of the best documentation in the open source world.