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PostgreSQL 17 accelerates open source database with replication and JSON tables
- The PostgreSQL 17 database is generally available today, marking a new milestone in the decades-long history of the widely deployed open-source technology.
- PostgreSQL 17 is an enterprise relational database that integrates more JSON document database capabilities.
- The new update brings innovations to make the database easier to use and manage.
- Every major cloud provider including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud has managed PostgreSQL offerings and APIs.
- The key improvements for database administrators are performance, scale and ease of development.
- The new memory management system for vacuum in PostgreSQL 17 makes vacuum more efficient and performant.
- PostgreSQL 17 features improvements for query planning that will further optimize performance, making query execution gains noticeable for queries with an ‘IN’ clause.
- Incremental backups, logical replication and SQL: JSON functionality are among the key features that make life easier for enterprise database administrators in PostgreSQL 17.
- PostgreSQL 17 supports JSON tables, allowing a database administrator to take a JSON document and turn it into a table that runs in PostgreSQL.
- Developers see PostgreSQL 17 as bringing more database lifecycle management functionality into the core server itself, to make it easier on customers and more consistent.
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