User Reviews of MySQL & PostgreSQL

Updated March 2024

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MySQL review

Patryk Golabek
Patryk Golabek
CTO at Translucent Computing Inc
Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups
As for what can be improved, right now we don't use the MySQL cluster. There is a MySQL cluster that you can run in a standalone mode, like a single database or you can do it in a cluster master-slave implementation. The cluster is not the best when it comes to MySQL. That's why we switched to MariaDB. For that simple reason that the...
PostgreSQL review

Chethan Rao S
Chethan Rao S
Software Engineer at Medflix
A scalable and stable database for transactional purposes
Postgres is a very performance-based database. It is an all-in-one tool. You can use it as an SQL database or as a NoSQL database. They do have a data type called JSONB. You can use some part of it in a hybrid NoSQL database or as a key-value-based DB. They do have a good number of plugins. So if they have to extend the capabilities, they...

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