Friday, September 08, 2017

Why You Should Always Verify Examples When Comparing Database Products

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Why You Should Always Verify Examples When Comparing Database Products
Why You Should Always Verify Examples When Comparing Database Products

In this blog post, I'll look at a comparison of PostgreSQL and MySQL.

I came across a post from Hans-Juergen Schoenig, a Postgres consultant at Cybertec. In it, he dismissed MySQL and showed Postgres as better. While his post ignores most of the reasons why MySQL is better, I will focus on where his post is less than accurate. Testing for MySQL was done with Percona Server 5.7 defaults.

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