Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL?

Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? by d_burfoot on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @01:22AM (#15172714)

It's a very very serious downside for me that there are now two MySQL's (three if you count Amazon's Aurora), just like there are multiple Linuxes and two Pythons.

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Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? by kronos29296 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:40AM (#15174194)

Isn't the number of pythons four? One for C, one for JVM, one for CLR and one in pure Rpython for the pure JIT code. Double them for python 2 and three. That makes it 8.

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Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? by sambe on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @08:19AM (#15174415)

There are two (very closely related) languages. In principle implementations are compatible, whereas language version are explicitly incompatible by intention. I think that was clear from the parent.

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Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? by graysonk on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:29AM (#15176182)

> just like there are multiple Linuxes

Are you talking about distributions or kernels?

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