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 ...

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 ...

Open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining steam, but rip-and-replace situations where MySQL and PostgreSQL replace Oracle Database, IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server databases remain rare.

EnterpriseDB and other PostgreSQL supporters say that the database has come a long way in recent years. Not only is it every bit as good as MySQL but in many ways that count it is superior to MySQL.

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are now generally available on the Azure Database service, Microsoft announced recently.. The two open source database management systems, which have been in preview on Azure ...