MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or Microsoft SQL Server
Redmine can be used with MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or Microsoft SQL Server database backends (the first three ones are actually natively supported by Ruby on Rails). But which one should you select for your Redmine installation? It's perhaps too important a question to be ignored in this book. No, I'm not going to praise some databases or criticize others—that's out of scope here. Instead, I'll cover things that you should consider when choosing a database backend.
Having worked with Redmine for quite a long time, I have noticed that most users use it with MySQL. Despite their reasons for choosing it, this means that Redmine has been better tested with this database backend. This argument becomes ...
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