I hope this doesn’t entice a flamewar, but speaking honestly here, whenever I discuss this (PostgreSQL vs MySQL) with folks working in the data space, PostgreSQL is always touted as the superior RDBMS. Now I know that MySQL is the most popular (because there’s a banner on mysql.com that says so! /s), and I get the sense that on raw […]
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