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This is a topic that can start several hours of discussion. As a quick summary, MySQL is the “popular, easy-to-use” database, and PostgreSQL is the “feature-rich, standards-compliant” database. Beyond that, each database user should make their own evaluation; open source software makes doing your own comparison very easy.
