

Triggers yes yes yes Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning) sharding through federation horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition Multi-source replication NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java yes proprietary syntax user defined functions realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc. Tcl Server-side scripts Stored procedures Transact SQL. Streaming API for large objects Supported programming languages C# Secondary indexes yes yes yes SQL Support of SQL yes yes with proprietary extensions yes standard with numerous extensions APIs and other access methods ADO.NET yes yes yes specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.
ORACLE VS POSTGRES VS MYSQL WINDOWS
Windows Data scheme yes yes yes Typing predefined data types such as float or date yes yes yes XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. Implementation language C++ C and C++ C Server operating systems Linux Aiven for PostgreSQL: Fully managed and hosted PostgreSQL® with 70+ extensions and orchestration tooling included. Predictably scale, increase workflow velocity, and deploy features with zero downtime. PlanetScale: Deploy a fully managed database with the reliability of MySQL and the scale of open source Vitess with PlanetScale today. Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available Open Source BSD Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service no no no DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) Database as a Service
ORACLE VS POSTGRES VS MYSQL LICENSE
Vector DBMS with pgvector extension DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart Score 902.22 Rank #3 Overall #3 Relational DBMS Score 1111.49 Rank #2 Overall #2 Relational DBMS Score 620.75 Rank #4 Overall #4 Relational DBMS Website Technical documentation /en-US/sql/sql-server /doc Developer Microsoft Oracle since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun PostgreSQL Global Development Group Initial release 1989 1995 1989 1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL Current release SQL Server 2022, November 2022 8.1.0, July 2023 16.0, September 2023 License Commercial or Open Source commercial restricted free version is available Open Source GPL version 2. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module. Editorial information provided by DB-Engines Name Microsoft SQL Server X exclude from comparison MySQL X exclude from comparison PostgreSQL X exclude from comparison Description Microsofts flagship relational DBMS Widely used open source RDBMS Widely used open source RDBMS Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL Primary database model Relational DBMS Relational DBMS Key/Value like access via memcached API Relational DBMS with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

PostgreSQL System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs.
