Postgres is widely regarded to be a good example of an open-source project – technically excellent, with a good codebase and community. MySQL has a history of being less technically sound – although it&#x27;s certainly improved, I imagine it&#x27;s left a bit of a legacy. In addition, the purchase of MySQL by Oracle probably makes many developers more skeptical of using it.<p>IME there isn&#x27;t really a compelling case to use MySQL over Postgres, unless there&#x27;s a specific environmental constraint.