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5. Using PostgreSQL Database

Deepak Vohra

(1)White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database. PostgreSQL is scalable both in terms of the quantity of data and number of concurrent users. PostgreSQL is supported in several of Apache Hadoop ecosystem projects such as Apache Sqoop and may be used for Apache Hive Metastore. PostgreSQL 9.5 offers several new features such as support for UPSERT, BRIN indexing, faster sorts, and the TABLESAMPLE clause for getting a statistical sample of a large table. In this chapter we shall discuss creating a PostgreSQL 9.5 cluster using the Kubernetes cluster manager. We shall ...

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