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> why didn't it try to improve Postgres

Honestly, why would they? If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another.

Just because it's open source and they could spend money improving it, doesn't mean a company will spend that money improving it.



> If there is a product that does what they need, why spend resources improving another.

I would hardly say MySQL does what they need without any improvements. They built an entire second platform on top of it.

https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/


MySQL does need improvements. This [0] is an example.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6


MySQL does need so much improvements

https://dom.as/2016/08/03/mysql-does-not-need-sql/


Isn't MySQL owned by Oracle and closed sourced as a result these days?




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