The move creates the first vendor-neutral open source alternative to MongoDB that has the potential to save enterprises money ...

With more new features due soon, the Postgres relational database continues to strengthen its hand, says the open-source project's core team member and EnterpriseDB chief architect Dave Page.

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Karthik Ranganathan, CEO and co-founder of Yugabyte.

The open-source PostgreSQL 16 database is out today, adding new features that will help improve performance for all types of workloads, including AI.

PostgreSQL is not the only open-source database that allows external extensions to add to the functionality of the database. One of the greatest strengths of MySQL is its pluggable storage engines.

PostgreSQL, the popular open source object-relational database system, started as Postgres at the University of California at Berkeley back in 1986.

And how? PostgreSQL, unlike every other database (open source or proprietary), is powered by community, with no single company responsible for its development. This shouldn’t work, yet it does.

The PostgreSQL interface for Cloud Spanner compiles PostgresSQL queries down to Spanner’s native distributed query processing and storage primitives and does not just support the PostgreSQL wire ...

If, in fact, Salesforce is developing a homegrown replacement for Oracle’s database, it might well be building it on PostgreSQL, the database Salesforce has actively flirted with since 2012.

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