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by homebrewer 522 days ago
Also the reverse — MySQL et al support much more complex replication topologies out of the box, including multi master for the very rare use case when you need it.

It's also much easier to tune, most database instances require setting innodb_buffer_pool_size, and that's basically it. Newer versions can even set it automatically if you're fine with consuming all memory on that machine, thus requiring no tuning at all.