In this series, Aisha is comparing the many different facets of these two open source, freely available RDBMS products.

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MySQL vs PostgreSQL: JSON Data Types

MySQL and PostgreSQL both support JSON, but they handle it in very different ways. This article compares their JSON data…

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MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: Date and Time Data Types

Date and time data types are important because they help track and manage time-based information in databases. This includes things…

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A very common task in creating a database is to store string data. For example, words, paragraph(s) or even documents….

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When working with strings in a database system, you need to ensure that the data is stored, sorted, and compared…

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When you think of how to store data in a database, you think of data types. A data type represents…

Aisha Bukar in MySQL

When I joined a growing startup company as a backend developer, we were at crossroads choosing between MySQL and PostgreSQL…

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