Why is PostgreSQL so popular?

features and performance as well as scalability make it a proper alternative for applications where traditionally Oracle DB was hard to replace. its more recent features for Key-Value-Storage (JSON / JSONB column type) make it an alternative to NoSQL-databases. PostgreSQL supports clustering / Master-Slav.

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Why use PostgreSQL vs MySQL?

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database, while MySQL is purely relational . This means PostgreSQL offers more complex data types and allows objects to inherit properties, but it also makes working with PostgreSQL more complex. PostgreSQL has a single, ACID-compliant storage engine.

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