In the world of open-source relational database management systems, the undisputed champions vying for the top spot are MySQL and PostgreSQL. These relational DBMSs are renowned for both their resilience and the fact that they scale with ease, so let’s see how they measure up against each other. PostgreSQL Explained PostgreSQL Global Development Group developed this state-of-the-art non-proprietary RDBMS, releasing it in the summer of 1996, but we can trace its lineage back to 1986 and Berkeley University in California, where it began life as part of a project called POSTGRES. In its present incarnation, it’s an enterprise-level relational database…

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