An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts of sophisticated features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions (savepoints), online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write ahead logging for fault tolerance. It supports international character sets, multibyte character encodings, Unicode, and it is locale-aware for sorting, case-sensitivity, and formatting. It is highly scalable, both in the sheer quantity of data it can manage and in the number of concurrent users it can accommodate. There are active PostgreSQL systems in production environments that manage in excess of 4 terabytes of data.
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX, Solaris and Windows. It has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages).
PostgreSQL offers many advantages for your company or business over other database systems :
- Immunity to over-deployment
- Better support than the proprietary vendors
- Significant saving on staffing costs
- Legendary reliability and stability
- Extensible
- Cross platform
- Designed for high volume environments
- GUI database design and administration tools
