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Re:"How hard can it be to implement?" by jemfinch on Thursday September 09, 2010 @11:07AM (#1675609)
MySQL does (did, at least; Postgres has been improving) replication better. Replication is really important for high availability, which almost everyone needs.

The irony, of course, is that a single Postgres server is frequently (IME) more reliable than multiple MySQL servers even when the latter is setup for HA.

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Re:"How hard can it be to implement?" by vog on Thursday September 09, 2010 @07:45PM (#1677368)
In addition, replication is the next thing where PostgreSQL is vastly improving (according to their road map).

Also note that if you want to trade some of the ACID properties for better performance and replication, the so-called NoSQL databases (CouchDB etc) seem to be a better trade-off than, say, MySQL with MyISAM instead of InnoDB.

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