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PostgreSQL 9.5 Released
iamvego writes: Later than the typical release cadence, PostgreSQL 9.5 has finally been released, and brings with it a slew of new features including UPSERT functionality, row-level security, and some big data features (CUBE/ROLLUP, join pushdown for foreign data wrappers, TABLESAMPLE, BRIN indexing and more). The previous release had brought about some new JSON functions and operators, but they only queried the data; 9.5 comes with new operators which now allow modification of JSON values, so it no longer has to be manipulated outside of the database. PostgreSQL's wiki has a more detailed overview of the new features.
They are and Oracle has been. Now PostgreSQL does too.
Go to Google and put in Oracle licensing. There's dozens of companies that are there just to make sure you set up Oracle correctly and pay enough so you won't be surprised during an audit that "oh you mean if I didn't turn off the default option at install time I owe $30,000 per cpu core for this feature we turned off the next day?" Because Oracle doesn't disable features you don't pay for, they just come back later and check for anything that had ever been enabled for even a single cpu cycle, and bills you the difference.
This isn't a "omg fr33 softwarez ftw!!1!" perspective, this is a "laywer up before you even TALK to an oracle salesperson" perspective.
After trying it there and learning a bit about it, I don't see why you wouldn't use PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is better than MySQL in basically every way
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."