MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

As a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1970s, Michael Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology that underlies many leading relational databases today: ...

Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but users may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is ...

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Databases are the most common cause of poor application performance, making performance optimization critical for any production database, according to Guy Harrison, co-author of a new book, titled ...