To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and performance.

Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially relative to Postgres.

By most measures, PostgreSQL and other members of the Postgres family are superior database management systems to MySQL. They’re more functional, more scalable, and easier to program.

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In this webinar, we'll compare MariaDB, MySQL and Postgres across seven categories: high availability, disaster recovery, security, performance, scalability, development and Oracle Database ...

MySQL may be better known, but PostgreSQL offers many features MySQL has only started to provide. In this article, I’ll walk through the steps to set up and get running a basic PostgreSQL ...