![]() ![]() Amid these challenges for organizations simply seeking safe open-source technologies to build and scale their products upon, Postgres stands out as a particularly mature project backed by a particularly strong community-and with diverse project leadership dedicated to true open-source principles. Open core vendors that lure in customers with the promise of open-source flexibility while concealing vendor and technical lock-in continue to lie like traps within the solution landscape. The past year has seen a lot of activity with open-source projects changing their licensing, unfortunately leading to greater usage restrictions in most cases. And while “MySQL Community Edition” is still supported by a large community of open-source developers, MySQL development has certainly felt the impact of Oracle’s influence. ![]() While ostensibly “open-source,” MySQL has increasingly added commercial modules with proprietary licensing since its acquisition by Oracle in 2010. In contrast, MySQL has a, let’s call it more complex standing. The project is unquestionably a testament to the capabilities of its broad and talented open-source community. Its code quality is highly regarded: an achievement stemming from the project’s commitment to open and public code review processes. ![]() Postgres is also a fully open-source project that’s been available under the PostgreSQL license since 1996. The open-source community’s response to bugs is usually immediate: important bugs are fixed-with full transparency-in a matter of days at most. From its continuous partitioning improvements to introducing index deduplication, PostgreSQL is consistently getting better with every release. Apart from a few hiccups (I’m talking about you, reindex concurrently bug), Postgres has delivered new first-class enterprise features with each of its last few versions. PostgreSQL releases a new major version every year. ![]()
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