On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-03-22 05:10, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > >> From: [email protected].**org >> <[email protected]>[mailto: >>> discuss- >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Harvey Rothenberg >>> Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Q: Which DB is easier to install and maintain - >>> PostGres or MSQL ?? >>> >> >> You might as well ask "which is better, linux or unix?" or Little Endians >> or Big Endians. >> People throw rocks on both sides; it's religion, and honestly, both sides >> are fine. >> >> Major applications run on mysql. Major applications run on postgres. >> Tiny apps run on both too. >> >> There's a trend for people to more often distribute small applications on >> mysql and big ones on postgres, but that is seriously, very much irrelevant. >> >> > I totally agree here. The biggest issue by asking people's opinion is the > history behind the two DBS, a lot of people's opinion has been tinted by > the DBSs early history (MySQL = no transaction, Postgres = difficult to > install. Both of these are no longer true). > All, OP asked about MS SQL Server versus Postgres, NOT mySQL versus Postgres. IMHO MSSQL vs. Postgres is personal taste, but fairly similar feature set from my somewhat limited experience (but not beginner) on both. mySQL is a whole other story.
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