Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL ( uber.com ) 453 points by myhrvold 4 hours ago | hide | past | web | 179 comments | favorite jedberg 2 hours ago > MySQL supports multiple different replication modes: > Statement-based replication replicates logical SQL statements (e.g., it would literally replicate literal statements such as: UPDATE users SET birth_year=770 WHERE id = 4) Postgres has that too (using a 3rd party tool, but it's an officially supported tool). We were using it on reddit 10 years ago. It caused a lot of problems. I wouldn't call that an advantage for Mysql. Honestly, reading this it seems like the summary is: "We don't follow great engineering practices so we need a database more forgiving". Which is fine if that's how you want to run your business, but isn...