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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

by Andrew Atkinson
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 34m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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PostgreSQL Is a Popular Award Winner

You’ve made a great choice to invest your time learning PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is praised for reliability, SQL standards conformance,[19] and having a high bar for features and documentation quality.

PostgreSQL was the #1 most popular database in use with Rails according to the “2022 Ruby on Rails Community Survey,”[20] with data spanning 13 years, from 2009 through 2022.

PostgreSQL was a three-time #1 Winner in 2017, 2018, and 2020 in “DB-Engines Ranking,”[21] an annual ranking of the most popular databases in the world.

In 2022, PostgreSQL was the third most popular database behind Snowflake[22] and Google BigQuery,[23] which are both primarily OLAP databases.

The 2022 “Stack Overflow Developer Survey” ...

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