mysql vs. postgresql

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Author: Trent Shipley
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New-Topics: Postgres vs MySQL Feature Table was Re: mysql vs. postgresql
Subject: mysql vs. postgresql
Another item to take into consideration is market share.

Most of the time it is wiser to use the most popular application and not the
best.

On Saturday 2003-06-14 08:45, Nick Estes wrote:
> I can't tell you much about mysql, but I have been using postgresql for a
> few years now. On the last project I was on, we were using postgres to
> handle a database that grew by more than 1GB/day (I don't recall how many
> millions of rows that represented), and we were able to tune it to get the
> performance we needed on pretty standard servers. It supports
> transactions, triggers, stored procedures, subqueries, and I have yet to
> come up with a join that it couldn't do (In my current project, we
> routinely use every sort of join except for a cross join to get our data
> out the way we like it). If you're doing anything the IPs or network
> addresses, it also has some sweet special data types and operators for
> them.
>
> As for an unbiased comparison between postgres & mysql, your best bet
> might be to talk to people who are good at one or the other and make your
> own comparison... Generally speaking, the people with the knowledge you
> seek are already fairly biased towards the one they use...
>
>     --Nick

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