Readit NewsWhat's the value in investing in a smaller company and then giving up things produced off that investment when the company grows?
Its surprising that date / time parsing is screwed in multiple languages
I have always preferred (even without thinking) to use configuration files as Yaml and kept Json for interprocess communication
( I don't know who said it, but if forced, I will say Albert Einstein or Mark Twain :-) )
Reminds of that article about Postgres for everything: https://github.com/Olshansk/postgres_for_everything
Finally, an interface that matches our enterprise COBOL codebase, perfect for Y2K-compliant enterprises of 1999 :-)
Overall I think Postgres adoption and integrations and thus community is much more wider than MySQL which gives it major advantage over MySQL. Also looking at the number of database-as-a-service companies of Postgres vs those of MySQL we can immediately acknowledges that Postgres is much widely adopted.
I don't know how much of that article points are still valid.
The other part in favor of mysql (in my opinion) are that there are lots of companies that use mysql in production - so the access patterns, and its quirks are very well defined Companies like Square, YouTube, Meta, Pinterest, now Uber all use mysql. From blind, Stripe was also thinking of moving all its fleet from Mongo to mysql
Perception wise, it looks like companies needing internet scale data are using mysql