Nov 17 2010

PostgreSQL vs MySQL

PostgreSQL vs MySQL

Blazonco uses PostgreSQL, rather than the ever popular MySQL. If you’ve ever wondered why some people do that, this is a great read.

A couple key points:

  • Postgres consistently has had better data integrity
  • Postgres has far superior support for transactions and rollbacks.
  • Postgres does better query optimization on different kinds of JOINs.
  • MySQL performs COUNT queries faster.
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