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K1 Acquires Mariadb (www.prnewswire.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some of our customers rely on Oracle’s database system, because history. Sadly, we can’t teach them.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, and I keep those folks in my prayers.

But if you're on MySQL it's a lot less of a lift to switch to MariaDB than it is to go to Postgres, even if Postgres is better in some ways.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

I rewrote the last remaining MySQL-based software of mine this year because I didn’t want to have MariaDB just for this one tool. Everything else had already been migrated. PostgreSQL is much faster in my tests.