Introduction to Not Only SQL
Explore how PostgreSQL supports NoSQL features while maintaining ACID guarantees. Understand its approach to scalability and distributed data, enabling you to design robust data models that handle massive concurrent activity without sacrificing consistency.
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PostgreSQL is a solid ACID relational database management system and uses the SQL language to process, manage, and query the data. Its main purpose is to guarantee a consistent view of a business as a whole at all times while applications are concurrently active in reading and writing modes of operation.
To achieve a strong level of consistency, PostgreSQL needs the application designers to also design a solid data model and, at times, to think about concurrency issues.
Million users issue
In recent years, big players in the industry faced a new scale of business never ...