Re:In Praise of PostgreSQL
by threeseed on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:44PM
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One is not better they are just different.
If you value more expressive data types and constructs to read/write your data then PostgreSQL is better. If you don't need those but do need to be able to scale to very large data volumes then MySQL is better.
I don't understand why people keep wanting to make this a competition. It's been going for decades and it was stupid back then as it is today. The databases are both popular, both high quality but serve different needs.
If you value more expressive data types and constructs to read/write your data then PostgreSQL is better. If you don't need those but do need to be able to scale to very large data volumes then MySQL is better.
I don't understand why people keep wanting to make this a competition. It's been going for decades and it was stupid back then as it is today. The databases are both popular, both high quality but serve different needs.