Object-relational database management systems (ORDBMS) are more important than ever in times of BigData and digitalization. A very well known ORDBMS is PostgreSQL. With a development history of over 30 years, the free software is available to everyone. The constant development is the reason why PostgreSQL is not only usable for UNIX-like platforms, as it was originally intended. Today, the software can be used platform-independently.
The database application is now a standard in most Linux distributions. But PostgreSQL is not only available for Linux, but also for Windows and macOS systems. Postgres is used worldwide and is used by numerous large companies and start-ups. (Source)
So what is PostgreSQL? – PostgreSQL is an advanced, enterprise-class relational database system that is available as open source software.
The use cases for PostgreSQL are extensive. For many enterprise developers, PostgreSQL is currently the preferred database management system because of its versatility and scalability.
Common application areas are:
✅ PostgreSQL database within the LAPP stack (LAPP stands for Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, and Python).
✅ Use as a robust backend database in the website and web application area.
✅ PostgreSQL is used as a primary database to support applications or products (Source)
PostgreSQL is designed to be extensible. Users can define their own data types, index types, and functional languages, etc..
So PostgreSQL supports most of the common programming languages:
PostgreSQL has many features that simplify the work with the database management system for users and also support them at the same time:
In addition to the general features, there is great potential within the open source community. This community has already developed many practical and free tools for PostgreSQL over the last few years. One of the most important and most used tool is the "pgAdmin". This is a program developed for setting up and managing PostgreSQL databases.
The "pgAdmin" is a web-based GUI tool that is used to manage the PostgreSQL session. Among other things, the administration tool provides the administrator with the ability to view existing sessions of the accounts visible to him and to track queries made within the sessions. Besides this feature, the tool has other interesting aspects. (Source)
Immense cost savings as well as significantly more flexibility: More and more companies are saying goodbye to license-required database management systems such as Oracle, DB2, etc. and migrating to open databases such as PostgreSQL.
Other databases are confronted with these features and advantages:
Queries with high complexity (subselects, outerjoin etc.) In another post of the blog series about PostgreSQL, we will take a closer look at this situation and the reasons for a change.
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