What is PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS), the most advanced open-source database management system in the world. It’s an alternative to commercial databases.
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Support for Many Data Types
PostgreSQL supports integers, floating point numbers, strings and Booleans, bit strings and network addresses, data arrays, including multidimensional, composite types, and other complex structures.
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Support for a database of Unlimited Size
In PostgreSQL restrictions apply only to specific entries. One table can take no more than 32 TB, and one record – 1,6 TB.
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Support for Complex Queries
PostgreSQL handles the tasks of parsing and executing time-consuming operations that involve both reading, writing, and validation at the same time.
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Writing Functions in Multiple Languages
In addition to standard SQL, PostgreSQL can be written in C and C++, Java, Python, PHP, Lua, and Ruby. Also, it supports Delphi, Lisp, and other rare languages.
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Simultaneous Modification of the Base
PostgreSQL provides the ability to simultaneously access the database from multiple devices. For this, the Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) technology is used.
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Possibility of Expansion
You can write for the DBMS your own types and conversions, operations and functions, constraints and indexes, your own procedural language for queries.
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High Power and Wide Functionality
PostgreSQL is a powerful and productive DBMS, it’s able to work efficiently with large data arrays.
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Cross-Platform
PostgreSQL can be installed on Linux, Windows, BSD, macOS, and Solaris-based systems. In addition, PostgreSQL has a standalone PostgREST web server that can be accessed using the REST API.
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