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Everyone Uses Postgres… But Why?
- PostgreSQL is the most popular database among companies and developers, according to Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023. Many big companies use PostgreSQL in their day-to-day operations, including Instagram, Reddit, and Twitch.
- PostgreSQL was one of the first relational database management systems and has been continuously developed since 1973. It has strong foundations and is enterprise-ready, supporting features like indexes, security, replication, columnar storage, isolation levels, partitioning, encryption, OLAP, cloud deployment, and vendor lock-in.
- PostgreSQL also supports many unique things like its extension mechanism which allows anyone to extend it to provide more features. It can be easily adapted to build highly tailored solutions and make it easy to adopt new technologies.
- PostgreSQL is capable of storing different types of data, can deal with complex data such as spatial information, offers full-text search (FTS) with various extensions, and supports analytical processes, time series, and more. It has an extension mechanism that empowers it with virtually limitless functionality and can support any type of workload.
- Instead of building a new database from scratch, we can just extend PostgreSQL with new capabilities and let it deal with the hard part of optimization, security, user management, and other elements that every production-grade system must have. When some new requirement comes into play, we don’t need to start from scratch but we just need to extend PostgreSQL with an extension.
- PostgreSQL supports enterprise-level requirements around HA, scalability, permissions, or security. This versatility makes PostgreSQL an exceptionally adaptable database capable of meeting a wide range of requirements and explains why it’s now the most popular database in the world.
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