PostgreSQL Vs MySQL: Comparative Review
Most of the businesses these days use database server. Although commercial databases like Oracle, Microsoft's SQL Server, and IBM's DB2 server are widely used, but the open source databases are fast gaining popularity, especial with the small and mid size businesses.
For decade now open source community has improved upon its quality of software to be more enterprise worthy. This has led to a gradual move from the proprietary, commercial software to open-source software in recent years. A large number of businesses around the world use Linux, the Perl programing language and open source database servers - PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Although the two open source RDBMS seem to converge somewhere, there exist a fundamental asymmetry between the database servers. We would delve into the major differences between PostgreSQL and MySQL that sets them apart.
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