Advantages of PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, the most advanced open source database, offers many advantages for your company or business over other database system. It also is available for almost every operating system with the latest stable release.

1. Open Source DBMS

Only PostgreSQL provides enterprise-class performance and functions among current Open Source DBMS with no end of development possibilities. Also, PostgreSQL users can directly participate in the community and post and share inconveniences and bugs.

2. Diverse Community

One of the characteristics of PostgreSQL is that there are a wide variety of communities. Regarding PostgreSQL as Open Source DBMS, users themselves can develop modules and propose the module to the community. The development possibility is superiorly high with collecting opinions from its own global community organized with all different kinds of people. Collective Intelligence, as some might call it, facilitates transmission of indigenous knowledge greatly within the communities.

3. Function

SQL functions called ‘Store Procedure’ can be used for server environment. Also, we support languages similar to PL/SQL in Oralcle such as PL/pgSQL, PL/Python, PL/Perl, C/C++, and PL/R.

4. ACID and Transaction

PostgreSQL support ACID(Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability).

5. Diverse indexing techniques

PostgreSQL not only provides B+ tree index techniques, but various kinds of techniques such as GIN(Generalized Inverted Index), and GiST(Generalized Search Tree), etc as well.

6. Flexible Full-text search

Full-text search is available when searching for strings with execution of vector operation and string search.

7. Diverse kinds of replication

PostgreSQL supports a variety of replication methods such as Streaming Replication , Slony-I, and cascading.

8. Diversified extension functions

PostgreSQL supports different kinds of techniques for geographic data storage such as PostGIS, Key-Value Store, and DBLink.