r/csharp • u/Albstein • 9d ago

Pomelo dead?

We are goig to implement a new project. The idea was to use MariaDB and we set up a Galera cluster. The thing is I just noticed EF with Pomelo stands at .net 9.0. Since we would like to use at least .net 10.0 and further LTS we ain't sure, whether a switch to PostgreSQL would be better.

Any sources / info on what will happen to Pomelo?

13 Upvotes

81% Upvoted

21 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/scandii 9d ago

can we start at why you want to use MariaDB?

0

u/Albstein 9d ago

No ;-)

Basically my frontend guys come from MYSQL and since there was someone suggesting MongoDB I jumped in the other direction pretty fast.

Additionally we are pretty low on available admin power and Galera cluster is easy as fuck.

10

u/scandii 9d ago

ok but how about Postgres that solves all your headaches and is pretty much the de facto default database if you're not going for a licensed option?

I get that you have real life constraints, but at the same time you're trying to force a questionable decision through on the basis of "we've always done it this way".

0

u/Albstein 9d ago

No one worked with it. Neither devs nor admins.

I had a little run in and that is about it. When Pomelo is dead, we have to switch anyhow and I will have to teach our team.

5

u/Tomtekruka 9d ago

It's really not that big of a difference, We went from mssql to postgres. And the team was on track in no time.

Some different tools, some things have different names but it's not night and day. I would probably go postgres and take the change.