MySQL Advantage: "MySQL can be installed very easily"<p>I've always heard MySQL's popularity had a lot to do with how easy it was to install, but now a days, I really can't see install ease being a factor. The date for the document says February 21, 2014, so they should know about EnterpriseDB and their installer or maybe my idea of easy is different.<p>In my opinion EnterpriseDB did a really good job with their Postgres installer. They certainly designed it to be easy to integrate with other products, which makes sense, since more Postgres installs means more potential customers.<p>I was actually taken back by how easy it was to integrate with my products Linux installer. And what makes the installer really nice is, it puts everything in a single directory, which makes all the difference for my product. My product has a Postgres 9 requirement, and I was really worried about losing potential customers who were running Postgres 8 and could not upgrade. But since the install is pretty much self contained, you can happily run Postgres 8 and 9 on the same machine.<p>If you know Perl and are curious, download my product (<a href="http://gitsense.com/download.html" rel="nofollow">http://gitsense.com/download.html</a>) and take a look at the install.pl file. My only complaint with the db installer is, it doesn't provide a way for you to track the install progress. To work around this, I just fork a process which does the db install and I'll print a dot to STDOUT which lets the user know the install is jugging away.