MySQL vs PostgreSQL

[kysil]

What is better choose for version 4?

[ASTRAPI]

I prefer MariaDB and my second option is PerconaDB

[TheSonic]

+1 for MariaDB  (because it's a fork, you may count this for MySQL)

[RevengeFNF]

MariaDB 10 for sure.

Never used Percona, but i know its also very good.

[Makoto]

Honestly I doubt you'll find many people here who actually have any experience using PostgreSQL, they're just going to say they prefer MySQL instead of saying that.

I don't use PostgreSQL often so naturally I prefer MySQL, since I have years of experience in using it, but I wouldn't say it's better than MySQL.

(Edit: And as Rhett mentioned below IP.Board does not support PostgreSQL)

[Rhett]

We have never supported PostgreSQL, so it's not even an option currently.

I vote for MariaDB, Percona, MySQL, in that order.

 

 

[Makoto]

Didn't IP.Board used to support PostgreSQL once a long time ago, but support was dropped because so few people utilized it? (Maybe it was only unofficially supported, I swear I remember a PostgreSQL database drive in the marketplace here once before though).

[TheSonic]

@Kirito : I just rember a MS SQL-Driver (if i am not totally wrong)

[Rhett]

MSSQL was supported up through the 3.1.4 series, and is no longer, PostgreSQL was never that i'm aware of, but could have been perhaps back in the ikonboard days, way before my time maybe. 

[Ryan Ashbrook]

Didn't IP.Board used to support PostgreSQL once a long time ago, but support was dropped because so few people utilized it? (Maybe it was only unofficially supported, I swear I remember a PostgreSQL database drive in the marketplace here once before though).

​I believe there may have been a community developer who made a PostgreSQL driver at one point, but that was ages ago (talking Pre-3.1 era).