Where PostgreSQL really excels in performance, and which MySQL doesn't handle as well, is in write-heavy applications. PostgreSQL writing is optimized through several features: Buffering and caching.

Likewise, the PostgreSQL server is called postgres. SQLite does not have a client/server architecture. There is just the database you are using, which is a local file, and client programs, which can ...

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