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 ...

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.

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 ...