| > Any one still using MySQL? Yes, but more so MariaDB > Do you manage your own MySQL installation? Yes and no, depends on the environment. > what managed provider do you use? RDS > what’s your biggest pain point? Nothing initially comes to mind. > Why not Postgres? Habit? It's what I learned with and just kept using. I understand it's permission model better than Postgres. I know how to back it up, restore, and replicate. At one time (not sure if this is still the case) it was noticeably cheaper than Postgres in AWS for our use cases. Some legacy systems can't be migrated to postgres even if we wanted. I've used Postgres and it has some nice features, especially with it's data types but often find myself lost with it's way of doing things. When possible I reach for SQLite instead of MySQL. |