PostgreSQL supports various authentication methods including password-based methods (e.g., MD5 and SCRAM-SHA-256), Kerberos, GSSAPI, LDAP and certificate-based authentication. Role-based access ...

Interest in PostgreSQL has risen recently. There were reports earlier this month of Apple dumping MySQL for PostgreSQL in Mac OS X Lion Server. And back in June, blogger Matt Asay wondered aloud ...

The new version of the open source PostgreSQL database now comes with data wrappers that can both write and read data to other databases and data storage systems For this year’s annual update to ...

PostgeSQL’s foreign data wrappers, which have been used since PostgreSQL 9.1 to read data from other systems, can now also be programmed to write data to non-PostgreSQL systems as well.

Likewise, the PostgreSQL server is called postgres. SQLite does not have a client/server architecture. There is just the database you are using, which is a local file, and client programs, which can ...

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently. The two open source database management systems, which have been in preview on Azure ...

EnterpriseDB and other PostgreSQL supporters say that the database has come a long way in recent years. Not only is it every bit as good as MySQL but in many ways that count it is superior to MySQL.

Until now, to use MySQL or PostgreSQL on Azure, they would have had to spin up virtual machines to run and operate those database systems themselves.

For this year's annual update to PostgreSQL, the developers behind the open source database have added several new ways to communicate with other databases and data storage systems.