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[–] 30 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Postgres is basically an open source version of Oracle DB. Much more featureful than MySQL. I believe Oracle bought MySQL just to kill it.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    MySQL always sucked ass.

    PostgreSQL went in a different direction, started with best support of the SQL standard, then optimized everything to make it fast.

    Postgres has/had the best SQL standard support out of every server, open-source or not.

    MySQL was at the other end, only started catching up after Oracle bought it.

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