PostgreSQL and MySQL are the two most common database management systems on the Internet.

MySQL is used in such high-load projects as Wikipedia, facebook, flickr, Digg, YouTube, on Habrahabr, and on almost all sites running Drupal and Wordpress.
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Postgres is not inferior - Skype would not work without it, it is used by social networks myyearbook.com and hi5.com, which are popular in America, and our native My Circle, smotri.com and World Tesen would not work without it.
Fresh versions of Drupal declare support for PostgreSQL, and instead of Wordpress you can use the Movable Type. Among other interesting applications that use Postgres, we can recall 1C: Enterprise 8 and some other corporate information systems.
What kind of database is better? For what tasks? How do the same tasks solve in different environments?
On January 22, 2009 in Moscow with the support of the “
Business in the .RU style ” club a unique event will take place - a joint meeting of the Moscow
MySQL and
PostgreSQL user groups.
Two teams of experts (hackers, developers of each of the systems, leading technical specialists of large projects) will describe the strengths and weaknesses of both systems and answer the guests' questions.
Preliminary list of participants:- Konstantin Osipov, Sun / MySQL
- Victoria Reznichenko, Sun / MySQL
- Alex Rybak, Badoo.com
- Fedor Sigaev, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
- Oleg Bartunov, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
- Andrey Smirnov, NetStream
The host of the meeting is Nikolay Samokhvalov, Postgresmen company.
The meeting will be held in the building of the State University - Higher School of Economics on
Pokrovsky Boulevard, Building 11 (Kurskaya / Chkalovskaya or Kitay-Gorod metro stations), in audience -201. The entrance is from Pokrovsky Boulevard,
through building E.Beginning - at 19-00.
To participate in the meeting, you must go through pre-registration:
reg.styleru.net/registration/pgsqlvsmysqlSo!
1.
Register .
2.
We arrive at 19-00 at the
main entrance .
3. Show the document (passport, driver's license, student ID, whatever, where is your name and surname).
4. We follow the signs to the audience B-201 and communicate with the speakers!