Why You Should Use Postgres Over MySQL For Analytics Purpose

October 30, 2018

Contributed by Huy Nguyen

Being an analytics/reporting product company, we’ve worked with a fair amount of customers who run Postgres/Redshift for their analytics, and the same fair amount who uses MySQL.

And from our experience with both, I’d prefer our new customers to use Postgres all the time. For reporting/analytics/data-warehouse purpose, Postgres wins over MySQL hands-down.

In this post I lay down a few practical reasons why working with Postgres is so much better than MySQL from a data analyst perspective.

Continue reading these reasons here >>

 

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