MySQL / MariaDB database support

[Smankusors]

Solidtime currently only supports PostgreSQL. Since it's built with Laravel, I expected it to be database-agnostic enough to run on MySQL, but that's not the case. The migrations fail, and even after patching them, the runtime relies on raw PostgreSQL stuffs 😢.

Are there any plans to support MySQL or MariaDB in the future?

[korridor]

There are currently no plans to support MySQL or MariaDB. It's true that the Laravel ORM is database-agnostic, but for the dashboard and reports we use advanced SQL queries which can not be done with only the ORM. We also use conditional indexes which are not supported by MySQL which might be why the migrations fail as well.
It's of course possible to write these more complex queries in different dialects to support MySQL, but this is work that we are not willing to do.
Postgres is open-source and widely available as well so this should not be a big barrier.