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		batmaniam on March 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? Did you use a dedicated database from the start of your project? Or did you use a simpler one like sqlite and then scaled up to your current architecture when you got more users/load to your site?

jarebear6expepj on March 28, 2023 [–]

I started with MySQL from the beginning because it is the DB engine I knew.

Over the years I have played with sqlite and postgress. I keep coming back to Mariadb for my web apps.

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