Federico Sevilla III wrote:
>
> Hi there everyone!
>
> I know I am running the risk of starting some sort of "war" here. If I can find
> information answering my question somewhere on the Internet, please let me know
> of the URL.
>
> In what ways is MySQL better than PostgreSQL, and in what ways is it the other
> way around? This also brings us to: for what applications (real world) will
> MySQL be a better solution compared to PostgreSQL, and for what applications
> will it be the other way around?
>
MySQL is more feature-rich. They have some pretty cool extensions to
SQL92 such as regular expression select and such. Also should be more
efficient on more powerful computers. Haven't used it much but I'm
trying to figure it out because it looks cool.
As for PostGres, I will say that it is pretty scalable. I once got the
thing to work on a 386 with 8MB RAM! Try doing that with MySQL! It
system requirements are definitely lower. You don't even need POSIX
threads to use it, but that's also a disadvantage because lots of
requests would benefit from a threaded architecture.
Good luck.
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