The article itself suggests MariaDB, as that was the original fork of MySQL.
Switching to Postgres I’m guessing would be a lot more difficult in terms of compatibility with existing application code, and general admin / lifecycle tasks. Though that’s just a guess as I’ve never actually used MariaDB.
The article itself suggests MariaDB, as that was the original fork of MySQL.
Switching to Postgres I’m guessing would be a lot more difficult in terms of compatibility with existing application code, and general admin / lifecycle tasks. Though that’s just a guess as I’ve never actually used MariaDB.
MariaDB is a drop in replacement for MySQL. If it needs a MySQL database, you can safely use MariaDB instead.
If you are building a new application, use Postgres. If you are running an existing application and it needs MySQL, use MariaDB.
Yeah, changing database systems like that is a nightmare, but could be worth doing depending on your usecase