Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
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Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
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Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#2The author is right that usage is dropping, but that really has no bearing on whether or not it is open source. Technologies get replaced all the time regardless of the license they use.
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#3From my experience MariaDB is not necessarily better than MySQL. The 8.x line brought many interesting features. I dream on switch to Postgres, and try every year but for my use case MySQL is still superior (100Bi+ rows for large texts, and heavy modified - I´m also space constrained - So I need data compression and the VACUUM are not good.)
The percona distribution is very good!
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#4I'm not going to stop using it because it's not "true open source." I'm going to stop using it because there's better databases out there.
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#5From my experience MariaDB is not necessarily better than MySQL. The 8.x line brought many interesting features. I dream on switch to Postgres, and try every year but for my use case MySQL is still superior (100Bi+ rows for large texts, and heavy modified - I´m also space constrained - So I need data compression and the VACUUM are not good.) The percona distribution is very good!
The storage engine is one of postgres's weakest points. I hope OrioleDB will eventually give us a more robust and easier to use replacement.
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#6Who's still using MySQL on the back end? Most Linux distributions come with MariaDB. Is it Windows servers?
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#7Happily using MariaDB (as packaged with Debian) in production here...
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#8Who's still using MySQL on the back end? Most Linux distributions come with MariaDB. Is it Windows servers?
MySQL performs well at large scale, and has a very cool and weird storage engine option called MyRocks, that slows read performance but allows demented write rates and compression.
But yes, it is very bad.
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#9I used MariaDB in Azure, but got notified it was retired. Anyway, migrated to sqlite.
Re: Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
#10Who's still using MySQL on the back end? Most Linux distributions come with MariaDB. Is it Windows servers?
I'm pretty sure Facebook is still running it. They've done a migration to 8.0 a couple of years after it came out (it was a massive release).