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PostgreSQL continues to improve in ways that meet the needs of even the most complex, mission-critical use cases. It also presents certain challenges. The database market continues to be splintered ...

The 10th version of the popular RDBMS PostgresSQL was released a few weeks ago. 21 years old, Postgres is popular among developers for its reliability, cost savings, maturity and of course being open ...

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 ...

Get up and running—and avoid the setup pitfalls—with this enterprise-class, open-source database available for all major platforms. For years now, PostgreSQL has been one of the best-kept secrets of ...

Regular readers of this column won't be surprised to hear that I love both Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Rails has been my primary server-side Web development framework for about eight years, and it ...

20 years ago this year, the original founders of EDB made two bets; one that more and more people would want to use Postgres, and another that more and more people would want to stop using Oracle.

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 ...

Anyone looking at the history of the open-source relational database management system Postgres, which dates back to the 1970s with Ingres, would expect an outdated technology, no longer in use today.