Steinar H. Gunderson, one of the authors of the SNAPY compression library and the IPv6 development participant, announced about returning to Google, in which at one time he was developing a search service on images and offline cards, but now will be involved in the development of the Chrome browser. Before that, Steinar worked for five years in Oracle over the upgrade of the MYSQL DBMS optimizer. The note is notable for a critical attitude to the prospects for MySQL and the recommendation to go to PostgreSQL.
According to Steinard, MySQL is strongly outdated and is not effective, despite the fact that most users and developers believe that everything is in order without bothering themselves compared with other DBMSs that have long gone forward. Optimization implemented for MySQL 8 made it possible to significantly improve the operation of the query optimizer compared to MySQL 5.7, but in general, the work is assessed as bringing it to the level of technology of the early 2000s. To further bring MySQL to an acceptable Oracle state, it does not allocate proper resources, which prevents it from maintaining it in the form of a competitive product. In the MARIADB DBMS, the situation is no better, especially after after the departure of Mikael Mikael Vinenius (Michael “Monty” Widenius), dissatisfied with new trends in project management.