The manual is subdivided into an administrator's guide, programmer's guide, user's guide and a tutorial. Several areas of the software lack adequate documentation. As can be expected from a commercial software product, it covers all the features. Authentication and General Security A topic I have not addressed yet, but which needs to be mentioned in this comparison, is access authentication. PostgreSQL and MySQL, while internally handling access control differently, understand these standardized statements.
Any larger database needs a security concept as much as it needs a thorough database design.
In Part IV of the series, Matthias wraps up the look at DBMSes with performance measurements and an overall summary of the tools.