• msage@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I did two rounds of very long presentations comparing those two systems.

    Personal reasons:

    • SQL standard support is still very weak
    • lack of WAL
    • array support
    • weird replication support
    • utf8mb4 mess took too long to resolve
    • many things started to get better only after Oracle takeover
    • dan@upvote.au
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      5 months ago

      lack of WAL

      Isn’t that what the binlog is?

      array support

      This annoys me too. It’s not quite the same, but native JSON support landed in MySQL 5.7.8. It’s stored in a binary format.

      weird replication support

      How does PostgreSQL do it?