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Overview
What Postgres does
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development. It has earned a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.
What people use it for
- Running a general purpose relational database for applications
- Self-hosting an open source SQL database with no licence fee
- Workloads needing extensions, JSON and full text search in one engine
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Postgres.
- Each major version is supported for only 5 years after its initial release, after which it is end-of-life
- Major version upgrades break on-disk compatibility and require a full dump and reload or the pg_upgrade tool
- New major versions ship about once a year, so staying supported means a disruptive upgrade cycle
- Minor releases contain only frequently-encountered bug fixes, low-risk fixes, security issues and data corruption fixes, so feature gaps are not addressed within a major version
- There is no vendor SLA; commercial support must be bought separately from third party professional services listed by the project
Pricing
What Postgres costs
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Community Edition
Free
- Full database features
- No limitations
- Community support
- All extensions available
- Complete source code
Capabilities
Features
ACID compliance
ACID compliance capability
Complex queries
Complex queries capability
Foreign keys
Foreign keys capability
Triggers
Triggers capability
Views
Views capability
Stored procedures
Stored procedures capability
JSON/JSONB support
JSON/JSONB support capability
Full-text search
Full-text search capability
Python
Integration with Python
Java
Integration with Java
Node.js
Integration with Node.js
Ruby
Integration with Ruby
Behind it
Who makes Postgres
- Company
- PostgreSQL Global Development Group
- Based in
- Open Source Project
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