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Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source (optimizedbyotto.com)
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[–] 190 points 10 months ago (32 children)

MySQL belongs to Oracle. That's literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Isn’t that the point of Postgresql. It’s basically an open source version of MySQL.

    I’m sure there are some proprietary nonsense that MySQL has, but I’ve never needed it in 17 years

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    MySQL always sucked ass.

    PostgreSQL went in a different direction, started with best support of the SQL standard, then optimized everything to make it fast.

    Postgres has/had the best SQL standard support out of every server, open-source or not.

    MySQL was at the other end, only started catching up after Oracle bought it.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That is an insult to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL was fully featured relational database even before it implemented SQL. It started much earlier tha MySQL.

    And MySQL didn't have proper transactions or data integrity constraints (including foreign keys) for long time, while calling itself an 'SQL database'.

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  • [+] -39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (22 children)
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  • [–] 87 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Hatred of Oracle predates "cancelling" by decades. Oracle is and has always been one of, if not the most disgusting and vicious companies in tech. They kill everything they touch.

    If you need a political component, then Oracle = Larry Ellison, but Oracle hate predates and supercedes the American political slide into fascism.

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  • [+] 24 points 10 months ago* (4 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Nutanix...oof. I deal with them every day. It isn't their fault their shit can't handle what we do, but it is their sales folk that constantly lie and misrepresent.

    Wanna know one of rhe big reasons people hate Oracle so much? It's their sales guys. They are awful. If that guy went from Oracle to Nutanix, that tells me that I cannot trust a single syllable out of their mouth.

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    When they bought Sun, they:

    • killed Solaris, effectively
    • tried to kill zfs too
    • nearly killed mysql with licensing audits
    • became borderline evil with licensing practices
    • acted like complete assholes in court, holding up cases for years
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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (5 children)
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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Oh so it's a greed thing, but not quite a Nestlé level of evil thing, then. Meh.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You clearly haven’t tried using one of there services APIs.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Why would you keep track? Can't form your own opinions?!

    And what the fuck hasn't Oracle done? Like, seriously, they've been a known bad actor for literally decades now...

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I'm sorry I don't follow this company's actions as closely as you do. I can't even remember the last time I used Oracle-branded software. (Unless you count MySQL, which I've never had an issue with. It just works.)

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