It’s hard to compete with easy. PostgreSQL has a lot of great qualities, but being easy to use seals the deal for companies and consultants. Even as NoSQL databases keep booming, the relational party ...

20 years ago this year, the original founders of EDB made two bets; one that more and more people would want to use Postgres, and another that more and more people would want to stop using Oracle.

Postgres for 20 years has served as the primary transactional data store for many applications as it’s flexible and easy to use and supported by a strong community. Twenty years, however, is a long ...

PostgreSQL has been around in some form since 1986, yet somehow keeps getting younger and hipper with each year. Startups like Timescale have found old-school PostgreSQL to be key to building their ...

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Released today, PostgreSQL 9.1 adds support for foreign tables, per-column collation support, K-Nearest-Neighbor Indexing, and adds extensions that simplify packaging of additions to PostgreSQL. A ...

Google today announced the launch of AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service that the company claims to be twice as fast for transactional workloads as AWS’s comparable ...