your hardware architecture, and load, its possible the data loss could be as small as a single transaction. Those wanting to use an open source database for a particular application project that ...

Until recently, I've been a fan of the PostgreSQL database, but Mysql's database replication implementation is very slick. Not to disparage my favorite RDBMS too much, but PostgreSQL's replication ...

But let's take a closer look at MySQL and Postgres across several important database categories: performance; SQL compliance; complex queries and data handling; replication; scalability and security.