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by thehal84 4251 days ago
I'll stick with MySQL, the features and stability just keep getting better. Replication, Memcache Plugin (with amazing write and read performance that supports replication), InnoDB Barracuda compression, JSON datatypes (in 5.7), it has scaled amazing well for us at Enginuity Search Engine. I should do a write up on our company blog sometime about all this.
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Sounds more like "I'll stick with MySQL because it's what I know" than any kind of a holistic comparison between the two.
It's not a deal-breaker per se, but I need someone to explain to me why, at this point in history, you need to make a choice, at some level, between relational integrity and full text indexing (InnoDB vs MyISAM)?
I believe InnoDB does have this now in MySQL 5.6: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-fulltext-index...
But it's not yet equivalent to Postgres' fulltext