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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah,
I did a speed test comparison between Oracle MySQL and MariaDB MySQL,
MariaDB is about 10 times faster.

FYI: When Oracle bought MySQL a lot of developers left and created MariaDB, so the brains behind the project moved, and in the meantime Oracle did a great job of fucking things up.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not what I asked. I asked about a comparison of both of them to PostgreSQL.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Oh misread my bad,
not much experience with PostgreSQL