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PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

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Top Positive Comment
Hafeez Pizofreude
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CAE Engineer

I like PostgreSQL because it just works for my relational database and I support FOSS. The community support is awesome. Touché.

fabriziob
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The most flexible and reliable database, open source as well. I just use it for everything.

Hamze Zare
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Founder at fanpino

I like it, we run it as the primary datastore for one of our products (a bioinformatics DB) where the relational + JSONB mix genuinely matters. Rock solid under load, and the tooling (pg_dump, extensions like pgvector) covers most things we'd otherwise reach for a separate service for.

caiocco
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PostgreSQL is mandatory for heavy users of GIS, specially QGIS. Setting up is not exactly hard, as the administrator just need to edit two files and open the right firewall ports. The challenge begins when data needs to be imported and maintained. PostgreSQL can be combined with a good and free data analysis tool like KNIME (KNIME can even help inexperienced admins to get data into the database). Speaking as a openSUSE user, for queries, check DBeaver (has a free community version) and DataGrip (wonderful, but commercial paid software); for modelling, check Visual Paradigm (has a very limited community version and very powerful well paid versions).

jansika
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Its my favorit database. I used MS SQL, Firebird, MySQL but this is the best.

tmp2005
Replying to @jansika

Do you want to tell us, what you like so much about PostgreSQL that makes it so much better than the other databases?

jansika
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Its my favorit database. I used MS SQL, Firebird, MySQL but this is the best.

SpongeBobTR
2

It's really great database system.

I can't understand why people still using Ms SQL Server or MySQL Server... Postgresql is really fast, secure and easy. And also FREE! :) If you don't use ORACLE, or you don't want to pay huge money for ORACLE license; what are you waiting for?

just use POSTGRESQL. You won't be regret ;)

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Install from the command line

  • winget install -e --id PostgreSQL.PostgreSQL.17
  • brew install postgresql@17

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

There is a wealth of information to be found describing how to install and use PostgreSQL through the official documentation. The open source community provides many helpful places to become familiar with PostgreSQL, discover how it works, and find career opportunities. Learn more on how to engage with the community.

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