While PostgreSQL has thrived in recent years, MySQL has languished. MySQL backers are coming together to change that.

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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. For the past few years, Sun has been a ...

In addition to the new Mac OSX Lion desktop OS shipping recently, Apple also updated their server software to Lion as well. In an unannounced change Apple has swapped out the built in MySQL database ...

As the subject says, I am interested in the benefits of using one over the other. I have heard a lot of people recommend postgresql over mysql because of its advanced features. The database will be ...

While Microsoft’s big Azure database news today is the launch of Cosmos DB, its new “planet-scale” distributed database service, there is a good chance that many developers will actually be more ...

Even worse, Conery shows how MySQL will alter your existing data to fit new parameters, creating major headaches for developers who will wonder where these new data values are coming from. PostgreSQL, ...

Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL. The two open source database management systems reached "general availability" ...