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Why change?

Considering MySQL? Use something else. Already on MySQL? Migrate. For every successful project built on MySQL, you could uncover a history of time wasted mitigating MySQL's inadequacies, masked by a hard-won, but meaningless, sense of accomplishment over the effort spent making MySQL behave. -- http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

MySQL is the PHP of databases. Available everywhere, tons of tools and people that work well with it, but ultimately it's broken by design.

  • Bad and dangerous defaults
  • Silent conversion of inputs to fit the schema
  • Silent truncation of data on schema change
  • UTF8 as 3 bytes by default WUT
  • Owned by Oracle 🧌
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