PostgreSQL


PostgreSQL

(database)/'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of thePOSTGRES database system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL isdeveloped and distributed as free software, and whileretaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise aworthy competitor to even the most advanced commercialalternatives.

It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC asopposed to row-level locking or table locking, therebygreatly improving multi-user performance.

PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL andruns on many platforms. It also has interfaces to manydifferent programming languages and database protocols,like ODBC and JDBC.

http://postgresql.org/.