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mason55 on Aug 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thoughts on Uber’s List of Postgres Limitations

> If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another.

I would hardly say MySQL does what they need without any improvements. They built an entire second platform on top of it.

https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/

0xmohit on Aug 3, 2016 [–]

MySQL does need improvements. This [0] is an example.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6

snaky on Aug 4, 2016 | | [–]

MySQL does need so much improvements

https://dom.as/2016/08/03/mysql-does-not-need-sql/

amaks on Aug 3, 2016 | | [–]

Isn't MySQL owned by Oracle and closed sourced as a result these days?

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