Why should you do database benchmark?

I was a long-term SQL Server user. But it was not my decision to use SQL Server. I was young and had to listen older colleagues. If they said, SQL Server is the best, then it was.

Then I was a long-term MySQL user. But it was not my decision to use MySQL. I was older, but my other colleagues were much more experienced. If they said, MySQL is the best, then it was.

I never searched for any other opinions, because at that time, I was learning. How can I argue with my much more experienced colleagues?

Then I found MariaDB. Then I found Percona. And I asked my much more experienced colleagues something like: “Hey, what are they? Why are they?”. The answer was almost always something like: “MySQL is the best, I know MySQL. Do you suppose to use something else? Do you want to break things?”

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