NoSQL capabilities
PostgreSQL is more than a relational database and a SQL language. PostgreSQL is now home to different NoSQL data types. The power of PostgreSQL and schema less data stores enables developers to build reliable and flexible applications in an agile way.
PostgreSQL supports the JavaScript Simple Object Notation (JSON) data type, which is often used to share data across different systems in modern RESTful web applications. In PostgreSQL release 9.4, PostgreSQL introduced another structured binary format to save JSON documents instead of using the JSON format in prior versions. The new data type is called JSONB. This data type eliminates the need to parse a JSON document before it's committed to the database. In other words, ...
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