percona-server

MariaDB [1] is a community developed fork of MySQL, so you can feel free to use that in place of MySQL. Another alternative would be Percona [2] which is a drop-in replacement for Oracle MySQL. About PostgreSQL I haven't had that much of personal experience with it, but for sure I plan to learn it, because it has been battle-tested for years with lots of well-known projects, such as Django framework, for instance. [1] https://github.com/MariaDB/server [2] https://github.com/percona/percona-server

As I pointed out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14169188 , there's a discussion of MySQL on the systemd-devel mailing list right now. Clearly some people in that discussion are not familiar with MySQL. Clearly some of the people in this discussion are not familiar with MySQL either. To help combat this ignorance, here are some actual systemd units: * https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/10.1/support-files/ma... -- MariaDB's official systemd service unit, 173 lines long * https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/blob/5.7/scripts/syste... -- MySQL's official systemd service unit, 60 lines long * https://github.com/percona/percona-server/blob/5.7/scripts/s... -- Percona's official systemd service unit, 61 lines long * https://sources.debian.net/src/apache2/2.4.25-3/debian/apach... -- Debian's third party systemd service unit for Ap