PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.

Technologies
c, postgresql, sql, rdbms, ordbms
Topics
database, big data, sql
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.

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 (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, macOS, Solaris), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL:2008 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.

An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts 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 instances in production environments that manage many terabytes of data, as well as clusters managing petabytes. Some general PostgreSQL limits are included in the table below.

2018 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Hongyuan Ma
Mentor
Mark Wong, Stephen Frost
Organization
PostgreSQL
"Develop Performance Farm Database and Website" proposal for Google Summer of Code 2018
I plan to implement the PerfFarm project using a separate front-end and back-end development approach and use PostgreSQL as a database for storing...
Contributor
Yan Cui
Mentor
Andrey Borodin, Anastasia Lubennikova, Aleksander Alekseev
Organization
PostgreSQL
implement pg_thrift plugin for postgreSQL
One of advantages of document-oriented databases like MongoDB or Couchbase over RDBMSs is an ability to change the data scheme easily, fast and...
Contributor
Kefan Yang
Mentor
Andrey Borodin, Atri Sharma
Organization
PostgreSQL
Sorting Algorithms Benchmark and Implementation
Implement the project idea sorting algorithms benchmark and implementation (2018) Candidate sorting algorithms: Introsort Timsort Dual-pivot...