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To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and performance.

PostgreSQL supports various authentication methods including password-based methods (e.g., MD5 and SCRAM-SHA-256), Kerberos, GSSAPI, LDAP and certificate-based authentication. Role-based access ...

The use of MySQL and PostgreSQL on Azure datacenter infrastructure adds built-in scalability and high availability, plus a 99.99 percent service-level agreement uptime assurance from Microsoft.

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At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL. This, Microsoft says, is meant to ensure that developers can use their favorite ...

Interest in PostgreSQL has risen recently. There were reports earlier this month of Apple dumping MySQL for PostgreSQL in Mac OS X Lion Server. And back in June, blogger Matt Asay wondered aloud ...

PostgreSQL is a big deal. The most common SQL open source database that you have never heard of, as ZDNet's own Tony Baer called it. Besides being the framework on which a number of commercial ...

The new offering supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB databases and is designed to simplify database deployment and management for developers, helping them to reduce risk, increase ...