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Postgres vs MySQL for a new project: pick Postgres unless one of these is true

Both are free and mature. For a new app in 2026, the docs tilt toward Postgres: a permissive licence, indexed jsonb, a free vector extension and hosts on every budget. Here is what each project's own documentation says, what I could not verify, and the cases where MySQL still wins.

Aliteq Team · 14h ago · 9 min