Another difference: PostgreSQL is an object-relational DBMS and MySQL is a relational DBMS.<BR><BR>You'll also find that PostgreSQL has many more data types that MySQL.

MVCC ensures simultaneous multiple writes without conflicts, which reduces contention and improves throughput in multitenant environments. Compliance MySQL and PostgreSQL both support the SQL standard ...

Community is King Community is king The most striking difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL may not be technical at all. Open-source projects are, by definition, all about the community.

To Bruce Momjian, lead integrator for the PostgreSQL project, the key difference between PostgreSQL and MySQL has been that the PostgreSQL project was truly community-oriented; there was no vendor ...

“PostgreSQL is a hugely popular database which is much more powerful than MySQL. That it supports multi-versioning like Oracle is icing on the cake,” Hilwa told TechCrunch.