Postgres Succinctly

In this day and age of distributed applications, database systems are two a penny. These data storage servers are cloud-based and server-based; even individual mobile phones have their own small-scale database systems.

Since everything needs some kind of data store to provide mass storage of any data generated by or attached to the application in question, the market is simply a minefield.

This e-book is about a database system that for the most part has quietly remained in the shadows while other systems, such as those developed by Oracle, Microsoft and many others, have hogged the limelight. The database in question, however, has in fact been around for a considerably long time, in some cases before many of the more popular ones.

This database is known as Postgres, and it is one of the longest-running, most stable open-source database systems available on the market today.

Let’s take a tour of this remarkable data storage server and its many facilities.