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 ...

You want to get it right the first time. Two popular open source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, are often the final two candidates when admins are preparing a new rollout.

Can PostgreSQL pickup where MySQL left off? Database company EnterpriseDB introduces a new cloud play for PostgreSQL.

Forgetting the open source community, can Apple trust them? In this age of patent lawsuits flying back and forth, does Apple want to do anything with Oracle software. In addition to ditching MySQL ...

Another difference: PostgreSQL is an object-relational DBMS and MySQL is a relational DBMS.<BR><BR>You'll also find that PostgreSQL has many more data types that MySQL.

Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL.

While Oracle trumpets its open source MySQL database management system this week at the company’s OpenWorld conference, the creators behind MySQL’s rival, PostgreSQL, have released a major new ...

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.