Replication is one of the most popular features used in RDBMS’s today. Replication is used for disaster recovery purposes (i.e. backup or warm stand-by servers), reporting systems where query activity ...

EnterpriseDB says a tool unveiled today that connects Postgres and MySQL databases strengthens the position of Postgres as an alternative standard database. The MySQL foreign data wrapper allows ...

When Sun Microsystems announced it was putting $1 billion up for MySQL AB, members of the other open source database community – PostgreSQL – also took notice. For the past few years, Sun has been a ...

Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, ...

Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...

This article, Postgres pushes past MySQL in developer hearts, originally appeared on TechRepublic.com. Postgres has never been considered cool. Ever the ugly stepchild to MySQL, Postgres disciples ...

Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL. The two open source database management systems reached "general availability" ...

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Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular ...