To clarify - the contracting company that looks after/develops this application has already begun migrating the entire system from IIS+PHP & SQL Server to Apache+PHP & PostgreSQL.

One of the most interesting trends in the computer world during the past few years has been the rapid growth of NoSQL databases. The term may be accurate, in that NoSQL databases don't use SQL in ...

Hot standby. PostgreSQL enables read queries to be executed on replica nodes in hot standby mode, which helps distribute the load while maintaining high availability. How MySQL and PostgreSQL line up ...