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>>It's good enough. No it ain't. There are plenty of other equally-capable data storage systems that don't come with MySQL's huge raft of edge cases and quirks.

Actually, it is good enough. Good enough to powere billions of websites. Good enough not to pay for Oracle, DB2, or trying to cram some half-finished nosql mess in where a relational database works better.

MySQL isn't an end all, but please, don't pretend that NoSQL holds all the answers.



I imagine that the author had in mind other Free relational systems, rather than NoSQL or proprietary. For example, off the top of my head:

* Postgres * Apache Derby * SQLite

All of which I'd prefer to using MySQL in just about any context, and each of which has contexts for which it's overwhelmingly the best choice.


what's wrong with this picture?

    Oracle/DB2/SQL Server/$$$ <------------ (?) ------------- MySQL --------> NoSQL
someone's missing the elephant in the room.


Which elephant is in your room?




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