New PostgreSQL guns for NoSQL market

May 15, 2014

Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB.The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4, released Thursday, includes a number of new features that address the rapidly growing market for Web applications, many of which require fast storage and retrieval of large amounts of user data.Typically, users have gone to NoSQL databases, which were designed for such workloads, though the community of developers behind PostgreSQL is updating their database to meet these requirements as well.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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