Databases

MySQL Database

The MySQL database is the most popular open source database. The MySQL database employs high performance, high reliability and more importantly easy to use. The MySQL database is also the database of choice for a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python). MYSQL has a low replication foot print making it appealing to most designers. There is less complexity than PostgreSQL.

MySqL for High Volume Web sites

MySQL’s files are extremely portable between versions, between operating systems, and even between platforms. MySQL aptly handles more than 20 internet platforms including Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX. The The MySQL database technology works reliably for both the experienced developer and the new to database user. The genius of MySQL is that it offers a comprehensive range of database tools, support, training and consulting services to create success.

Who Uses MYSQL?

The world's largest and fastest-growing websites use MYSQL. Those websites are Facebook, Google, Adobe, Alcatel Lucent and Zappos. They rely on MySQL to save time and money while powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software.

PostgreSQL databases.

PostgreSQL is comparable to the services MySQL users had been using. PostgreSQL controls the concurrency throughout the system known as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC). PostgreSQL gives a "snapshot" of the database, allowing changes without being visible to other users until a transaction is committed. PostgreSQL can create user-defined indexes and methods, although this is quite an involved process. With PostgreSQL, there is no “upgrade of the server while in-place” instead the data must be dumped and reloaded with data.

PostgreSQL Supports

PostgreSQL database platform includes built-in support for B+-tree, hash, GiST and GiN indexes. PostgreSQL also ensures the database maintains the ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) principles in an efficie