I don't have a great deal of experience with Postgres but I have been using MySQL since the days of mSQL and have found it to be fast, reliable, easy to install on both Linux and Windows and straightforward to administer. It provides good support for the ANSI standard and the documentation is good in identifying extensions to or deviations from the standard. All of the basic tools, from query analysis to command line administration programs, are documented and function reliably. Statement syntax is very well documented. Features include localization, various character sets (UTF-8 and Unicode), data encryption, client/server encryption, stored procedures, triggers, transactions, APIs for a number of programming languages and support for ODBC, JDBC and .NET. Configurability is provided mainly through some 250+ system variables which may be set at startup (on the command line or in the options file) or dynamically with the SET statement. I have been very pleased with its performance both administratively and as a programmer and you can't beat the price.
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