How to convince people to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?
Tobias May <[email protected]>
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Mellow Greetings all, I'm a junior DBA and PostgreSQL-enthusiast. Last year I switched to a company where they promised to me the opportunity to dive deeper into PostgreSQL. At that time there was a lead developer, who was a PostgreSQL-enthusiast, too. And there was an agreement that PostgreSQL is the primary database backend for our product. Unfortunately she has been frozen out by non-technical decision makers. Now there is only one colleague and me (without authority to decide) left to advocate PostgreSQL. Most of the developers in the company are used to MySQL. Although they seem to accept PostgreSQL some still subtly question the decision and I'm feeling, that I have to constantly defend the decision for PostgreSQL. To be prepared I tried to collect and refine as much hard evidence as possible, during the last couple of months, e.g, https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emgJtr9tIME (some points are not valid anymore), http://insights.dice.com/2015/03/19/why-i-choose-postgresql-over-mysqlmariadb/, http://modern-sql.com/slides, PostgreSQL is community-driven (huge plus!), Oracle treats MySQL like a stepchild (understandably they don't want competitors for "Oracle DB"), etc. To me all these political and technical advantages of PostgreSQl over MySQL are more than enough. But the results don't feel "resilient" enough. It is also cumbersome to keep track of how far ahead PostgreSQL is in comparison of features and standards compliance and providing undeniable practical examples. Finally: How do I convince people to choose PostgreSQL over a MySQL? Alternatively: How do I cope with people, which refuse the available (too few?) facts? Thank you so much for this little gem called PostgreSQL. Keep up the great work. Be well, Tobias
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