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What is PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.

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Product Demos

PostgreSQL for Beginners - Demos on pgbouncer

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PostgreSQL demo with CPP on Ubuntu Linux

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Spring Boot + Vue.js example | Spring Data JPA + REST + PostgreSQL CRUD Demo

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ASP.Net Core Web API con Docker Compose, PostgreSQL y EF Core

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Demo: Replicating Oracle Database to PostgreSQL - TechXperts

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postgresql conf demo

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Frequently Asked Questions

PostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of PostgreSQL are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

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PostgreSQL has a wide range of use cases across various industries and organizations. It is commonly used as a primary data storage solution for traditional relational data in customer-facing systems, serving as a reliable and scalable option. Additionally, PostgreSQL is utilized as a NoSQL data store with JSON and JSONB data types, offering flexibility and versatility for developers. Users appreciate its near-complete ANSI SQL language implementation, making it handy for data extraction and analytics. PostgreSQL is also valued for its ease of integration or migration with AWS Redshift, enabling seamless data transfer between platforms. Moreover, it serves as a dedicated and per-application data storage engine, catering to the diverse needs of different business units. Whether it's for data analytics, reporting, ad-hoc data storage and retrieval, or building high-traffic API services, PostgreSQL proves to be a stable and cost-effective solution for various use cases.

Reliability and Performance: Users have consistently praised PostgreSQL for its reliability and performance, with many reviewers stating that they have experienced no downtime or issues related to the database. Some users also mentioned that PostgreSQL's performance is exceptionally fast, providing them with great speed in their operations.

Ease of Use and Flexibility: Many users find PostgreSQL easy to use and appreciate the availability of good open-source tools to work with it. Reviewers have highlighted that constructing queries in PostgreSQL is straightforward and that it integrates well with all development languages, making migration easy. The flexibility of PostgreSQL's user/role management system has also been praised by users, as it allows for easy control over access to tables.

Wide Industry Adoption and Community Support: Several reviewers acknowledge that PostgreSQL has achieved wide industry adoption, making it easier to integrate into a stack and hire knowledgeable developers. The availability of a huge online community for support was highly appreciated by users. Additionally, many users mentioned the extensive documentation available for PostgreSQL, along with the ease of finding examples, which further contributes to community support.

Complicated Installation and Setup: Many users have found the installation and setup process of PostgreSQL to be complicated, especially for Mac users. They have mentioned the need to learn new commands and have recommended blog posts for guidance.

Difficult Syntax of SQL: Users have expressed difficulty in understanding the syntax of SQL in PostgreSQL, which they find different and hard to grasp. This may be a reason why the software is not widely adopted.

Lack of Clear Benefits: Users have mentioned the lack of clear benefits for choosing PostgreSQL over other products. They feel that there are better alternatives available with more extensive features, documentation, and community support.

Based on user reviews, PostgreSQL is recommended for its ease of use, fast execution, and compatibility with other PostgreSQL users. Users also find its functionality, friendly SQL operations, and good GUI feature beneficial. It is suggested as an alternative to other complex query language platforms.

Reviewers highly recommend PostgreSQL for its scalability, robustness, and reliability. They believe it is the best relational database with great popularity among developers. It is suggested for work, learning, career purposes, as well as small and medium development projects. Users also mention its suitability for incremental development and cost reduction.

PostgreSQL is praised as a world-class and free database with a vibrant community that provides great support. Reviewers recommend it for its cost-effectiveness and suitability as a free relational database. It is suggested as the default database choice for developers, including testing and staging environments. The growing community around PostgreSQL is seen as an advantage.

Other notable recommendations include the speed, security, and reliability of PostgreSQL. It is considered suitable for querying large amounts of data and prioritizing security. Users emphasize the importance of familiarizing oneself with SQL, utilizing the documentation, and keeping up with the latest versions of PostgreSQL. They suggest having database experts on the team for production use.

Additionally, users suggest using PostgreSQL for lightweight installations, optimal database management, building reporting engines, data analysis with good security features at an affordable price, and implementation in systems with array support.

Some users request improvements such as easier configuration processes for Windows users or adding real-time database support or developing another database app. Online resources are recommended for training and support when learning PostgreSQL.

Overall, users find PostgreSQL to be a complete and easily accessible database system with multi-version concurrency support that offers a reliable solution for various needs.

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postgreSQL, a great choice from startup to enterprise

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 07, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
3 years of experience
  • it has allows us to quickly deploy database dependent systems with an isolated data layer
  • The cost has saved us a large sum of money compared to paid options in the space
  • Setup time is very short meaning we can spend more time developing and less time configuring

"PostgreSQL is the most sophisticated and adaptable database software available."

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 31, 2021
AF
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
2 years of experience
  • A robust and reliable platform reduces the risk of data loss and confusion.
  • Using an almost free product is economical. No license fees = minimal ownership cost.
  • Efficiency is high due to quickness and excellent resource management.
  • PostgreSQL helps us achieve our goals, and there are no time-consuming management tasks.

PostgreSQL Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 22, 2021
AA
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
10 years of experience
  • reduce costs in lookup for reference data
  • Easily backed up vs doing backups of files over and over
  • versioning of data, vs backups of db
  • structuring of data to decrease storage costs

PostgreSQL has rich feature sets and it's completely free!

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 19, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
2 years of experience
  • Free to use, means that we can have as many database instances as we need without cost increase.
  • JSON support is very helpful and saves quite a lot of time querying and searching for data.
  • ACID compliance means with the right implementation and usage we can almost certainly trust the data.

PostgreSQL you don't want to stop using it

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 02, 2021
MM
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
8 years of experience
  • Being a platform of great robustness and quality, it generates confidence in the security of the data, which minimizes the risk of confusion or loss of data.
  • Efficiency is extremely high due to the speed and excellent management of resources.
  • PostgreSQL contributes greatly to the fulfillment of the objectives of our area that is focused on legal aspects of the population that requests them and this tool helps to streamline our internal processes.

Professional and Free

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 14, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
2 years of experience
  • Since it did not create a cost step before the project, it enabled us to act more flexibly on the upper source or software side.
  • We got rid of unpredictable costs such as user CAL licenses after project completion
  • Instance number or core count is not the cost on the postgresql side, but the units of performance do not need to learn a lot for license.

PostgreSQL as Solution base database solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 20, 2021
AB
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
15 years of experience
  • Open Source solution that does not cost more money to our customers help us keep our solution cost affordable.
  • Excellent database that is well supported and continue development allow us to benefit from our investment for many (more than 15) years.

PostgreSQL delivers on its promise.

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 08, 2021
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
10 years of experience
  • Easy to administer so our DevOps team has only ever used minimal time to setup, tune, and maintain.
  • Easy to interface with so our Engineering team has only ever used minimal time to query or modify the database. Getting the data is straightforward, what we do with it is the bigger concern.
  • It's free. You can't beat that.

PostgreSQL - The database that fits all

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 27, 2020
JB
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
15 years of experience
  • Being open source free software, the ROI couldn't be better.
  • There are a lot of young developers who know the technology and are interested in advancing their careers with the platforms and technologies in which they are invested. It is more easy to contract developers for the platform, then the projects are more quickly finished, then the ROI is made in shorter time.
  • There is a lot of prejudice with PostgreSQL and open source in general, because, they say, there is no company behind it, but thank God, their minds are changing. A lot of companies and consultants will technically support your project and your infrastructure.

Battle-tested-never-data-loss alternative to MySQL

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 14, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
4 years of experience
  • The user-role system has saved us tons of time and thus money. As I mentioned in the "Use Case" section, Postgres is not only used by engineering but also finance to measure how much to charge customers and customer support to debug customer issues. Sure, it's not easy for non-technical employees to psql in and view raw tables, but it has saved engineering hundreds of man-hours that would have had to be spent on building equivalent tools to serve finance or customer support.
  • It provides incredibly trustworthy storage for wherever customer data dumped in. In our 6 years of Postgres existence, we have not lost a byte of customer data due to Postgres messing up a transaction or during the multiple times the hard-drives failed (thanks to ACID compliance!).
  • This is less significant, but Postgres is also quite easy to manage (unless you are going above and beyond to squeeze out every last bit of performance). There's not much to configure, and the out of the box settings are quite sane. That has saved us engineers lots of time that would have gone into Postgres administration.

A robust, free, and high quality DB

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 20, 2020
BK
Vetted Review
Verified User
PostgreSQL
5 years of experience
  • It has expanded our capabilities to work with companies which do not want to pay for Oracle licences, but still need a reliable DB.
  • It's one of the most successfull DBs. Knowing how to use it has extended our value on the market.
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