Another difference: PostgreSQL is an object-relational DBMS and MySQL is a relational DBMS.<BR><BR>You'll also find that PostgreSQL has many more data types that MySQL.

The differences in processing efficiency between MySQL’s three character storage types should not have a big impact on processing times unless your data sets are extremely large.

For developers familiar with MySQL, you've probably heard that MariaDB is the next generation of the database engine. MySQL has long been the traditional database in Linux, ...