- Google/DDG haven't produced many recent results on "reasons to use one RDBMS (MySQL/PostgreSQL/MariaDB) over another". For whatever reason, 2017 seemed to be a hot year on this topic. What's the latest in 2021? Seems like they've all grown up and are usable for basically any startup project? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6y6glh/why_favor_postgresql_over_mariadb_mysql/ 26 comments programming