What is the best alternative to PostgreSQL?

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score 62 · Answer 1

MariaDB

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Truly open development community

All development decisions for MariaDB can be reviewed and debated on a public mailing list or in the public bug tracker. Contributing to MariaDB is easy and the patch flow is fully transparent and public. But it's not all about the code contribution either - MariaDB also has very active documentation efforts and other related things that help developers in their day-to-day database administration. See More

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More cutting edge features

e.g. GIS since 5.3 See More

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Dynamic column support

MariaDB has dynamic column support which allows for some NoSQL type functionality. So one database interface can provide both SQL and NoSQL for different software development needs. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD

Technology:C, C++, Perl, Bash

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score 108 · Answer 2

MySQL

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Scalable

MySQL is made to handle a lot of data and to be used in large applications. This makes it extremely scalable and fast, even under a lot of workload. See More

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Error messages usually are not very detailed

When you are trying to do something in MySQL and something goes wrong it will simply give you an error message with an error code. Which does not say much about what went wrong unless you look it up online. This can be a little cumbersome during development. See More

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Multiple third-party tools that help working with MySQL

Since MySQL is one of the most popular relational databases, maybe the most popular, there exist many third-party tools and applications that help developers to use MySQL in their development. See More

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Easy to start working with

Because of it's popularity there are a lot of tutorials and guides out there that help developers install and work with MySQL. The installation process itself is not very hard and there are multiple powerful GUI tools that make it extremely easy to work with MySQL for a beginner. See More

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Technology:C/C++

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score 59 · Answer 3

Redis

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Redis is written in ANSI C and therefore doesn't have a VM

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Good support

Redis has great docs, an active mailing list, and a github community. See More

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Redis uses the BSD license

This means that it is able to be used in a commercial product if one wants. See More

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There are numerous client libraries and frameworks to make redis more powerful

For Node.JS for example you can get something similar to what Parse.com was offering by using Node ORM. See More

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