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Database Engines Architecture & Taxonomy Layer

Enterprise Database Engines & Production Playbooks

Verified emergency runbooks, root-cause triage libraries, high-availability cluster blueprints, and deep engine internals for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.

4 Supported Engines
35 Verified Production Assets
100% Field Tested

PostgreSQL

18.6 / 19 RC

18.6 Stable / 19 RC • EOL: Kasım 2030 (18.x)

Hub

Advanced MVCC, enterprise ACID compliance, extensible data types, and high-availability open-source relational database engine.

Default Port / CLI:5432 • psql
Config Filepostgresql.conf / pg_hba.conf
HA & Kümeleme MimarisiPatroni + etcd + HAProxy / PgBouncer

MySQL

9.7 LTS / 26.10

9.7 LTS / 26.10 Inno • EOL: 2034 (9.7 LTS) / 2032 (8.4 LTS)

Hub

World's leading open-source relational database, InnoDB storage engine, and Paxos-based Group Replication cluster architecture.

Default Port / CLI:3306 • mysql / mysqlsh
Config Filemy.cnf / mysqld.cnf
HA & Kümeleme MimarisiInnoDB Cluster + Group Replication + MySQL Router

SQL Server

2025 CU10 / 2022

2025 GA (CU10) • EOL: 2036 (2025) / 2033 (2022)

Hub

Microsoft enterprise relational database management system, Always On Availability Groups, In-Memory OLTP, and Query Store intelligent query processing.

Default Port / CLI:1433 • sqlcmd / SSMS / mssql-cli
Config Filesqlservr.ini / sp_configure
HA & Kümeleme MimarisiAlways On Availability Groups + WSFC / Pacemaker

Oracle

26ai LTS / 19c

26ai LTS • EOL: 26ai Premier: 2031; Extended: TBD / 19c Extended: 2032

Hub

Industry-standard relational database for mission-critical enterprise workloads, Multitenant architecture, RAC, and Exadata.

Default Port / CLI:1521 • sqlplus / SQLcl
Config Fileinit.ora / spfile / listener.ora
HA & Kümeleme MimarisiOracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) + Data Guard
Comparative Architecture Matrix

Choosing the Right Database Engine for Your Workload

In-depth comparison matrix across PostgreSQL 18 vs MySQL 8.4 LTS, self-hosted HA topologies vs managed cloud instances (Aurora/Cloud SQL).