On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 7:07 AM Inzamam Shafiq <inzamam.sha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Can someone please list pros and cons of MariaDB vs PostgreSQL that actually > needs serious consideration while choosing the right database for large OLTP > DBs (Terabytes)? >
For me, security is important. I don't want to do a lot of late night patching, and I don't want to cleanup after a data breach. When vendors pitch a product with a database, I insist on a PostgreSQL backend. MySQL makes regular appearances on BugTraq. MySQL has over 1700 CVEs going back to 1999.[1] It tells me there are problems with the engineering process. MariaDB adds additional CVEs on top of MySQL, but the count appears low. I have never separated the purely MariaDB flaws from the underlying MySQL flaws. In contrast, PostgreSQL has about 240 CVEs going back to 1999.[2] It tells me PostgreSQL has a better engineering process. Jeff [1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=MySQL [2] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=PostgreSQL
