PostgreSQL Database Administration
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database
system that uses and extends the SQL language combined with many features that
safely store and scale the most complicated data workloads.
PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, It was originally named POSTGRES, referring to its origins
as a successor to the Ingres database developed at the University of
California, Berkeley.
- ANSI-Standard SQL
- General Purpose
- Object-relational database management system(RDBMS)
- Free and Open source RDBMS
- Platform independent
- Very stable and requires minimum maintenance
- Large storage
- Fast performance
- PostgreSQL is extensible: You can define your own data types, index types, plugins etc.
- Active community support
Who is using
PostgreSQL?
Bio Pharm sector, E-Commerce, Education, Finance,
Gaming (Moby Games), Government (National physical laboratory of India),
Healthcare, Manufacture, Media, Open source projects, Retail (safeway,ADP
Dealer service), Technology (apple, fuiitsu, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Telecom
etc.,) and Telecom (Cisco, NTT Data, Skype etc.,).
