I haven&#x27;t used Java in a while, but does Oracle still run around extorting folks for using the JDBC license? I&#x27;m curious.<p>Frankly I don&#x27;t have any really serious problem with mysql other than it&#x27;s ownership and speed of improvement. Plausibly MariaDB sorts that out but I agree with other commenters that at this point Postgres seems like the best choice for most new projects.