PostgreSQL is not the only open-source database that allows external extensions to add to the functionality of the database. One of the greatest strengths of MySQL is its pluggable storage engines.

While I am a general Linux admin, I have never administered or used PostgreSQL, although I do admin a few MySQL instances. I have just been told that a system currently hosted on SQL Server 2008 ...

MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Even though MySQL is probably the best-know name in the open source database world, a number of excellent alternatives are available.

Should the current state of the forums (deathly slow posting delays at the moment) be considered a poster child for the success of MySQL in that it can run a forum this large without imploding so ...

EnterpriseDB, a provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, today announced Postgres Plus Cloud Server, which the company has billed as "a full-featured, Oracle ...

Also, I use MariaDB instead of MySQL in my examples, because that's what I have installed, and because I like the improvements MariaDB includes in both the command-line client and in the database ...

In an unannounced change Apple has swapped out the built in MySQL database installed in previous OS X server versions and replaced it with PostgreSQL in Lion.

Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL.