{"id":886,"date":"2008-07-24T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2008-07-24T16:36:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T21:36:53","slug":"mysql-vs-postgresql","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/24\/mysql-vs-postgresql","title":{"rendered":"MySQL vs. PostgreSQL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were at the Sun+Zend party last night, and it was a blast (thank you Jesse Silver!). If you&#8217;re a PostgreSQL or MySQL user\/developer or just a general database geek, you should&#8217;ve been there. Why?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AAGgUCDiRlQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AAGgUCDiRlQ\">watch the video if its stripped in your feed reader<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/monty-says.blogspot.com\/\">Monty Widenius<\/a> (MySQL) and <a href=\"http:\/\/it.toolbox.com\/blogs\/database-soup\/\">Josh Berkus<\/a> (PostgreSQL), decided to start sumo wrestling! It ended with a 5-0 score, advantage MySQL. <\/p>\n<p>An attendee Tim Moore <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tmoore\/statuses\/866821712\">twittered<\/a>: &#8220;Postgres is totally losing the sumo match. I&#8217;m migrating all of my databases to MySQL tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monty says, this is what we do to people that leave Sun! In fact, if you didn&#8217;t already know, Josh Berkus, my esteemed colleague in the Database Group at Sun Microsystems, is <a href=\"http:\/\/it.toolbox.com\/blogs\/database-soup\/sun-rise-sun-set-26078\">leaving<\/a> his post as the PostgreSQL Team Lead. We met for the first time, face to face at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/14\/fossin-day-2-a-day-of-sun\">foss.in last year<\/a>, and all I can say is I&#8217;m truly saddened to see him leave. But thanks to the magic of the open source world, we&#8217;ll still be interacting, I&#8217;m sure. Good luck Josh! (and better sumo practising next time, mmmkay?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were at the Sun+Zend party last night, and it was a blast (thank you Jesse Silver!). If you&#8217;re a PostgreSQL or MySQL user\/developer or just a general database geek, you should&#8217;ve been there. Why? (watch the video if its stripped in your feed reader) Monty Widenius (MySQL) and Josh Berkus (PostgreSQL), decided to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[102,342,1775,318,319,45,350,351,81,212,352],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-josh-berkus","tag-monty-widenius","tag-mysql","tag-oscon","tag-oscon2008","tag-postgresql","tag-sumo","tag-sumo-wrestling","tag-sun","tag-video","tag-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}