If the DB vendor is supplying and supporting the images, then that's a different story, of course. The devil is in the details, and the presence of Docker support shouldn't be interpreted to suggest that other aspects of database administration shouldn't be followed.

At any rate, at least MySQL and its Percona variant have native packages for modern mainstream Linux distributions , so as a practical matter you shouldn't need to run them in a container: they've already worked out the dependencies for you. This means you don't need to bother with the overhead of Docker.