To properly evaluate the strengths of PostgreSQL and MySQL, the two leading open-source databases, one must look at the history and pedigree of each, and their feature functionality and performance.

PostgreSQL supports various authentication methods including password-based methods (e.g., MD5 and SCRAM-SHA-256), Kerberos, GSSAPI, LDAP and certificate-based authentication. Role-based access ...

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The use of MySQL and PostgreSQL on Azure datacenter infrastructure adds built-in scalability and high availability, plus a 99.99 percent service-level agreement uptime assurance from Microsoft.

Likewise, the PostgreSQL server is called postgres. SQLite does not have a client/server architecture. There is just the database you are using, which is a local file, and client programs, which can ...