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    5 months ago

    All software eventually gets deprecated / unsupported, including free open source projects.

    I think the update cycle on MySQL and Mongo is more aggressive than MS SQL.

    The only difference is you pay for MS SQL.

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        5 months ago

        And how many years do they support a specific release before making you upgrade.

        Looks like MySQL standard releases are one year and LTS releases are 5 or up to 8 with extended support.

        So somewhat similar to Microsoft