At 12:54 PM 5/9/00 , Bjornson, Matt wrote:
>What is the groups opinions regarding MySQL vs PostgreSQL?
I think this has been discussed here and you may find more detail in the
archives or on deja news. PostgreSQL is more ANSI compliant and fully
featured than MySQL at a price of being slower and less widely used. Less
featured can be deceptive though, IIRC MySQL has more varieties of data
types. MySQL is perhaps a better solution for very quickly showing static
data or storing information which is not precious enough to require
COMMIT/ROLLBACK. The MySQL documents on-line describe and contrast MySQL
pretty well although since the docs are large, you may have to scroll
through a lot to find them.
Ideologically, although the MySQL license is liberal and I think you can
get some source (I think they GPL older versions), PostgreSQL is more
"open", some would say the only open solution of the two.
-Alan
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