Billing itself as the "world's most advanced open source database", PostgreSQL is bundled with many of our most popular Bitnami apps, including our LAPP stack, Dev Pack, OpenERP/Odoo, Discourse and more. To kick off our new Open Source Leaders podcast series, we interviewed Dave Page, the Director of PostgreSQL Europe, to learn more about the PosgreSQL database and what's to come from the project.
Here are just a few of the topics we covered:
How does the PostgreSQL community work?
Why should one be involved in the community?
What is next for PostgreSQL?
How does PostgreSQL stack up next to no-SQL leaders?
Does PostgreSQL work on the cloud?
What level of experience do you need run PostgreSQL?
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Stuart Langridge: This is the Bitnami Open Source Leaders series of interviews. I’m Stuart Lankridge and I’m here talking to Dave Page. Dave is Director of PostgreSQL Europe, Vice Chair of the PostgreSQL Community of Canada, he’s chief architect of Tools and Installs at EnterpriseDB and he’s a core team member of the PostgreSQL project. Hey Dave, welcome to the interview.
David Page: Thank you, Stuart nice to talk to you.
Stuart Langridge: So what is Postgres?
David Page: Postgres is an open source relational database management system. We compete mostly with the likes of Oracle and SQL Server. It’s a completely open source permissive license. We have a very large community that are both using Postgres and submitting patches on a regular basis. So we’re pretty diverse in the things that Postgres supports because we have this large community of people from all sorts of different areas and different industries helping us build the product and add support for all sorts of useful features.
Stuart Langridge: You talked there about the size and diversity of the community. Is Postgres targeting a particular use case or does it do everything from small data storage up to huge data stores?