Re:SQLite vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL
by mutation on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:03AM
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> historically it's had a great user manual for beginners.
The quality of Postgres' documentation was the thing that was a big plus for me more than 10 years ago when I started fiddling with databases. MySQL came with one big 1MB+ HTML file, while Postgres had nicely organized multi-HTML docs. Even if you know nothing about databases, my vote goes to Postgres' docs for really good explanations of what to do, and what's going on. Of course, nowadays everything's easy with apt-get and stuff.
The quality of Postgres' documentation was the thing that was a big plus for me more than 10 years ago when I started fiddling with databases. MySQL came with one big 1MB+ HTML file, while Postgres had nicely organized multi-HTML docs. Even if you know nothing about databases, my vote goes to Postgres' docs for really good explanations of what to do, and what's going on. Of course, nowadays everything's easy with apt-get and stuff.