It is an object-oriented database that is fully ACID compliant and highly extensible, enabling the community to add new features and capabilities as workload demands evolved.īecause of its extensibility, PostgreSQL offers a wide variety of built-in PostgreSQL data types including JSON, XML, HSTORE (key-value), Geo-spatial (PostGIS), IPv6 flexible indexing, featuring composite indexes, GiST, SP- GiST, GIN full Text Search, online index reorganization background workers such as a managed process known as Mongress, which accepts MongoDB queries to interface with Postgres data a contrib module interface: pgcrypto (data encryption), pg_trgm (find 'similar' data), HSTORE (schema-less data) and extensive SQL support.
In development for more than 20 years, PostgreSQL is managed by a well-organized and highly principled and experienced open source community. PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open source database and the fourth most popular database. For more information, please see this blog post on Platform Native EDB Packages for Linux Users. Version 10.x and below will be supported until their end of life. Please Note: EDB no longer provides Linux installers for PostgreSQL 11 and later versions, and users are encouraged to use the platform-native packages.
