Session
BackHow PostgreSQL Extension APIs are Changing the Face of Relational Databases
Date: 2018-09-07
Time: 20:30 - 21:20
Room: Market Street
Level: Intermediate
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PostgreSQL is becoming the relational database of choice. An important factor in the rising popularity of Postgres is the extension APIs that allow developers to improve any database module’s behavior. As a result, Postgres users have access to hundreds of extensions today.
In this talk, we're going to first describe extension APIs. Then, we’re going to present four popular Postgres extensions, and demo their use.
- PostGIS turns Postgres into a spatial database through adding support for geographic objects.
- HLL & TopN add approximation algorithms to Postgres. These algorithms are used when real-time responses matter more than exact results.
- pg_partman makes managing partitions in Postgres easy. Through partitions, Postgres provide 5-10x higher performance for time-series data.
- Citus transforms Postgres into a distributed database. To do this, Citus shards data, performs distributed deadlock detection, and parallelizes queries.
Finally, we’ll conclude with why we think Postgres sets the way forward for relational databases.