@xarvos I don't think he covered it in the video but yeah MySQL had been owned by Oracle for like 8 years now. A lot of the original devs got butthurt and forked it making MariaDB which was originally a drop-in replacement but it's diverged to the point it's starting to become it's own thing. You should still be able to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB in place without issue and also get much better performance but going the other way around is pretty iffy besides why would you even want to do that?
That being said, postgres is still the best relational database. Not only will it not eat your data but it will also perform way better than MySQL or even MariaDB.
@matrix can attest to that after I bullied him into migrating to postgres.
Postgres is literally the best relational database you can use.
Actually, I'm curious to see how it performs against the likes of MSSQL (kind of it's only real contender if MSSQL doesn't make you an hero first). Oracle SQL server is pretty much off the table since its licensee forbids you from benchmarking it.