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Why PostgreSQL Why This Database Why Now | Nordic PGDay 2019 | Claire Giordano

Why PostgreSQL Why This Database Why Now | Nordic PGDay 2019 | Claire Giordano

I spent the early part of my career working on developer tools, operating systems, high-speed file systems, and scale-out storage. Not databases. Frankly, I always thought that databases were a bit boring. So one year in to my new job at a Postgres company, I continue to be amazed at the enthusiasm of the PostgreSQL developer community and users. I mean, people’s eyes light up when you ask them why they love Postgres. Sure, a lot of us get animated when talking about our newest iPhone, or Ronaldo’s phenomenal free-kick goal in the World Cup, or mint chip gelato from La Strega Nociola—but most platform software simply doesn’t trigger this kind of passion. So why does Postgres? Why is this open source database having such a “moment”? Why now? Well, I’ve been trying to find out, looking at this “Postgres moment” from a few different angles. In this talk I’ll share what I’ve observed to be the top 10 business, technology, and community reasons so many of you have so much affection for PostgreSQL.

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March 19, 2019
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  1. NORDIC PGDay 2019 | Copenhagen
    Why PostgreSQL
    Why This Database
    Why Now
    Claire Giordano / Citus Data / Microsoft
    @clairegiordano / @citusdata / @microsoft
    19 Mar 2019 | Copenhagen

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    Engineering > Product > Marketing
    Lycee d’etat Jules Verne
    Papagos, Athens, Greece
    Citus Data > Microsoft
    @clairegiordano / @citusdata
    Preferred programming language

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    @clairegiordano

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    Peop
    le’s
    eyes
    ligh
    t up
    @clairegiordano

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    Peter Eisentraut

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    Dimitri Fontaine at PGConfEU 2018.
    Photo by Claire Giordano.
    Peter Eisentraut at PGConfEU 2018.
    Photo by Claire Giordano.
    Lætitia Avrot at PGConfEU 2018.
    Photo by Claire Giordano.
    Stephen Frost at PGConfEU 2018.
    Photo by Claire Giordano.

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    Why PostgreSQL?
    Why This Database?
    Why Now?
    ?
    @clairegiordano

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    NORDIC PGDay 2019 | Copenhagen
    people have so much affection for PostgreSQL
    10 reasons
    @clairegiordano

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    Open Source
    1
    @clairegiordano
    0
    Octocat icon courtesy of GitHub

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    ECOSYSTEM

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    Come for the code. Stay for the community.

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    Community
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    @clairegiordano Photo courtesy of @pgconfeu, Oct 2018 Lisbon

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    Source: https://www.pgcon.org/2016/schedule/events/890.en.html

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    @clairegiordano
    Not Oracle
    8

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    Source: Manu Cornet. Bonkers World. http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

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    @clairegiordano
    Permissive
    license

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    https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_databases

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    Forks make the community
    strong.”
    —Peter van Hardenberg,
    Illustrated History of Postgres

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    Trust
    Hardened
    Data Integrity
    Maintainability
    @clairegiordano

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    @clairegiordano

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    5Trend
    away
    from
    NoSQL
    @clairegiordano

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    Postgres is heating up
    Source: Hacker News Hiring Trends through Jan 2019 | hntrends.com
    Postgres
    MySQL
    MongoDB

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    Heroku helped
    to popularize
    Postgres
    @clairegiordano

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    Timing of JSON &
    JSONB
    support

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    @clairegiordano
    CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
    PostGIS
    is industry
    standard
    way to model
    spatial data
    in a database
    Photo by Claire Giordano

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    Source: Paul Ramsey PGConfEU 2018 Keynote: Put some “where” in your WHERE clause; https://bit.ly/2NM3zqB

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    Everything is related to
    everything else, but near things
    are more related than distant
    things.”
    —Waldo Tobler, American-Swiss geographer
    & cartographer

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    And now……….. #1 reason

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    Extension APIs
    @clairegiordano

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    We are still dining out on the
    radical design decision by Michael
    Stonebraker in the Design of
    Postgres—to have
    run-time extensions.”
    —Paul Ramsey, Lisbon, PGConfEU 2018

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    Michael
    Stonebraker
    Source: Wikipedia

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    Not everyone has to agree, up-front

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    PostGIS
    Citus
    postgresql-HLL
    pg_partman
    pg_cron
    postgresql-topn
    postgresql-unit
    pguri
    postgis.net/
    citusdata/citus
    citusdata/postgresql-hll
    pgpartman/pg_partman
    petere/pguri
    citusdata/pg_cron
    ChristophBerg/postgresql-unit
    citusdata/postgresql-topn

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    PostGIS
    Citus
    postgresql-HLL
    pg_partman
    pg_cron
    postgresql-topn
    postgresql-unit
    pguri
    postgis.net/
    citusdata/citus
    citusdata/postgresql-hll
    pgpartman/pg_partman
    petere/pguri
    citusdata/pg_cron
    ChristophBerg/postgresql-unit
    citusdata/postgresql-topn
    AND SO MANY MORE
    POSTGRES EXTENSIONS
    AND MORE THAT WE HAVEN’T YET IMAGINED

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    Thank You!
    Matt Asay
    Lætitia Avrot
    Dave Cramer
    Herb Cunitz
    Nils Dijk
    Peter Eisentraut
    Vik Fearing
    Dimitri Fontaine
    Stephen Frost
    Önder Kalaci
    Amit Kapila
    Günce Kaya
    Craig Kerstiens
    Paul Ramsey
    Marco Slot
    Sai Srirampur
    My Nguyen
    Peter van Hardenberg
    Tom Lane
    Jonathan Katz
    PGConfEU audience
    Isaac Alves
    Danese Cooper

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    Working on Postgres and
    Citus, I’ve found bliss—it’s
    deeply satisfying to work
    on a technology that not
    only delights developers,
    but makes their lives light
    years better.”

    —Claire Giordano,
    Nordic PGDay 2019
    @clairegiordano

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    Thank you!
    @citusdata
    @clairegiordano
    github.com/citusdata/citus
    @microsoft
    p.s. Socks & stickers

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