![]() ![]() This brings competitive advantage while also complicating IT environments and developer workflows. While major players like SQL Server and Oracle remain, different use-cases are prompting other databases to be used alongside them to satisfy diverse and emerging business demands. ![]() A good indicator of this is the variety of databases in use, as shown in the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey:Ĭross-database estates are now becoming the norm in companies and organizations. Now, databases are chosen on a use-case approach, based on the advantages they offer for any given scenario. Alongside the huge increase in structured data like relational and transactional data in SQL databases, there has been a meteoric rise in unstructured and semi-structured data, or big data.Īs a consequence, the days of monolithic database estates which are SQL Server or Oracle only are over. Businesses now use more than one type of databaseįirst up, business and organizations everywhere now use more than one type of database because the volume, nature and location of data has changed. ![]() PostgreSQL, by the way, is pronounced ‘Post-gres-Q-L’, or it’s shortened to ‘Post-gres’. But what do they know that you don’t, what kind of advantages are they gaining, and why should you care about what database your business is using? Here’s your quick guide to everything PostgreSQL. An open source relational database that offers the kind of enterprise advantages that have already attracted businesses like Netflix, Instagram and Spotify according to the tech stack intelligence platform, StackShare. For the last five years and more, there’s been an elephant in the room when it comes to the way businesses and organizations collect, manage, store and analyze data: PostgreSQL. ![]()
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