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

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Replication is one of the most popular features used in RDBMS’s today. Replication is used for disaster recovery purposes (i.e. backup or warm stand-by servers), reporting systems where query activity ...

EnterpriseDB says a tool unveiled today that connects Postgres and MySQL databases strengthens the position of Postgres as an alternative standard database. The MySQL foreign data wrapper allows ...

This article, Postgres pushes past MySQL in developer hearts, originally appeared on TechRepublic.com. Postgres has never been considered cool. Ever the ugly stepchild to MySQL, Postgres disciples ...

Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...

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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" ...

Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular ...