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TL;DR: PostgreSQL and MySQL are not black boxes. Both let you swap storage engines, index types, durability guarantees, where data physically lives, and even add vector search and ML, often per table

Sep 29 · 47 min read · ani-db.hashnode.dev  
Updated Sep 30  
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