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Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL

Thanks for the article. It was a good introduction to authentication methods for PostgreSQL. Authentication does not, however, make a better enterprise database alone. The title of the article was misleading.

Furthermore, PostgreSQL has offloaded authentication to the underlying OS. This may or may not be more secure; it depends on the skill of the sysadmin and hardening of the OS. And when the author speaks of "granularity" I wonder if he has conflated authentication with authorization. Both are important parts of AAA but they aren't the same.

Good article. Looking forward to more information in this vein.

>PostgreSQL offers much more security, reliability,
>and data integrity than MySQL does.

You addressed (partly) the security issue with PostgreSQL vs MySQL, but what about data integrity and reliability - do you have data to back up those claims? What are you basing the comparisons on?