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1st Meetup - Islamabad PUG
- 1. Welcome to the first Meetup of Islamabad PostgreSQL User Group April 8, 2016
- 2. Introducing PostgreSQL ● Database Management System (DBMS) ○ Relational & Object-Relational Features ● Fully Open Source ○ Most liberal open source license: BSD ○ Free to use, free to distribute … UNLIMITED & FOREVER! ○ Open to enhancements and contributions ● Runs on all major operating systems ○ Linux ○ Unix (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, OSX, Solaris, Tru64) ○ Windows
- 4. Who am I? ● Director, Products 2ndQuadrant ● Got “pushed” into PostgreSQL in 2004, ended up falling in love with it ● Not a hardcore techie, yet passionate about open source software ● Interested in Big Data, especially the newer PostgreSQL features supporting it 2011 2015
- 5. Maximum Database Size Unlimited Maximum Table Size 32 TB Maximum Row Size 1.6 TB Maximum Field Size 1 GB Maximum Rows per Table Unlimited Maximum Columns per Table 250 - 1600 (depending on column types) Maximum Indexes per Table Unlimited PostgreSQL is Cool !!!
- 6. PostgreSQL is Cool !!! ● Multi-User, highly concurrent design ● SQL:2011 compliant ● Designed for extensibility ● Can be used for OLTP as well as OLAP operations ● Can be used for Data Warehousing & Data Mining
- 7. PostgreSQL is Cool !!!
- 8. PostgreSQL is Cool !!! ● Relational database with NoSQL / Big Data features ○ HSTORE ○ XML ○ JSON & JSONB ○ TABLESAMPLE ○ BRIN INDEXES ○ Parallel sequential scan ○ Parallel aggregates ○ FDWs
- 9. PostgreSQL is Cool !!!
- 10. PostgreSQL is Cool !!! It is my livelihood ;-)
- 11. PostgreSQL - History ● Developed by Stonebraker in 1986-93 @ University of California at Berkeley, after he left Ingres – hence name Post gres ● Literally a ground-up rethink about how databases should work ○ Multiple CPUs ○ Advanced concurrency design ○ User defined datatypes ○ User defined functions ○ Partial indexes ● All these concepts started with PostgreSQL and then went into other databases
- 12. PostgreSQL - History ● University Postgres 1986-1993 ● Postgres95 1994-1995 ● PostgreSQL 1996- ○ Phase 1: Avoid crashes 1996-1998 ○ Phase 2: SQL Compliance 1998-2001 ○ Phase 3: Robustness 2001-2004 ○ Phase 4: Enterprise Features 2004-2011 ○ Phase 5: World Class 2011-
- 13. PostgreSQL Community ● Open and active community ● Spread across the globe ○ 49 Local User Groups in 25 countries ● Code contributors Core Team Major Contributors Contributors
- 14. ● Thriving community of PostgreSQL developers ● Major investments by leading PostgreSQL-based businesses of the world ● Endorsed by the global PostgreSQL community ● Listed at: http://www.postgresql. org/community/user-groups/ Why Islamabad?
- 15. Where do we go from here? ● One meetup each month ○ Do a deep dive on a particular topic ○ Open to suggestions for topics and speakers ○ Next meetup planned for 6th May ● Create a platform for ○ Connecting industry with PostgreSQL experts ○ Connecting academia with PostgreSQL experts ○ Developing Islamabad as a contribution center for PostgreSQL ○ Discussing commonly faced problems with data ○ Share and spread knowledge about PostgreSQL
- 16. Special Thanks!!
- 17. Umair Shahid umair@2ndQuadrant.com @pg_umair 2ndQuadrant is hiring ALL geographies! Thank you for your time!