As
the database matured and finally reached a version supporting all you would expect from a commercial
enterprise system, the product then continued to be optimized in order to make it as fast and efficient as
possible. Now it is a world - class system standing in the top three database systems used in Japan and
backed by major companies such as Fujitsu.
In its current rendition, the PostgreSQL database could quite easily be considered as an open source
competitor to the Oracle enterprise server, providing many advanced features including stored
procedures, triggers, and its own scripting language on par with PL/SQL itself.
All these features are not without their cost, though, as although PostgreSQL could quite possibly satisfy
any enterprise data storage requirement, it does have a level of complexity and requires careful planning
and regular tuning.
The My SQL Database
The MySQL database server is probably one of the most popular database servers in the world and has
been for sometime. At present, there is little difference between the offering provided by the PostgreSQL
database and that of MySQL.
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