MySQL and PostgreSQL on the same hardware
- by Kamil Kisiel
We recently bought some new hardware for a database server which we were intending to dedicate to the operation of PostgreSQL. However now we have the requirement to also run MySQL as some software we want to use only supports that database. Since the storage on this machine is the most suitable for hosting a DB, and we don't currently have the budget for more hardware,we're thinking of running both of them on the same server.
Are there any caveats or best practices we should be aware of?