Tags: MySQL

MySQL is to the internet what baijiu is to China: harsh, hard to swallow, yet worshipped because culture demands obedience. Both are loyalty tests—will you endure discomfort to fit in?

A 2025 reality check on where PostgreSQL stands relative to MySQL across features, performance, quality, and ecosystem.

What? PostgreSQL can now be accessed using MySQL clients? That's right, openHalo, which was open-sourced on April Fool's Day, provides exactly this capability and has now joined the Pigsty kernel family.

An interesting but tricky puzzle: solving the 24 game with SQL. The PostgreSQL solution.

Percona founder Peter Zaitsev discusses whether MySQL can still keep up with PostgreSQL. His views largely represent the MySQL communitys perspective.

This July, MySQL 9.0 was finally released—a full eight years after its last major version, 8.0 (@2016-09).

Percona founder Peter Zaitsev publicly expressed disappointment with MySQL and Oracle, criticizing the declining performance with newer versions.

Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona, criticizes how Oracles actions and inactions have killed MySQL. About 15 years after acquiring Sun and MySQL.

Higher MySQL versions mean worse performance? Percona monitoring shows slow migration from 5.7 to 8.x. PostgreSQL is pulling ahead.

MySQL's transaction ACID has flaws and doesn't match documentation promises. This may lead to serious correctness issues - use with caution.