Learn More . When Sun Microsystems announced it was putting $1 billion up for MySQL AB, members of the other open source database community – PostgreSQL – also took notice.

Community is King Community is king The most striking difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL may not be technical at all. Open-source projects are, by definition, all about the community.

MVCC ensures simultaneous multiple writes without conflicts, which reduces contention and improves throughput in multitenant environments. Compliance MySQL and PostgreSQL both support the SQL standard ...

Interest in PostgreSQL has risen recently. There were reports earlier this month of Apple dumping MySQL for PostgreSQL in Mac OS X Lion Server.

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for a wide range of professionals interested in expanding their knowledge and skills in database design and modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL.