Here are some specific technical differences in MySQL and SQL Server when it comes down to the ANSI SQL standard: Features like stored procedures, triggers, views, and cursors became a part of the ...

SQL databases with in-memory column stores, NoSQL with query languages; it looks like the two schools of database design have begun to merge. Written by Simon Bisson, Contributor Nov. 24, 2014, 4: ...

MariaDB —an enhanced, drop-in version of MySQL. PostgreSQL —an enterprise-level, object-relational DBMS that uses procedural languages like Perl and Python, in addition to SQL-level code.