May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
PostgreSQL 10 can achieve more than one million reads per second on a four socket server, and it benchmarks at more than 30,000 write transactions per second with full durability. With advanced hardware even higher levels of performance are possible.
PostgreSQL has an advanced optimizer that considers a variety of join types, utilizing user data statistics to guide its choices. PostgreSQL provides the widest range of index types of any commonly available database server, fully supporting all data types.
PostgreSQL provides MVCC, which enables readers and writers to avoid blocking each other.
Taken together, the performance features of PostgreSQL allow a mixed workload of transactional systems and complex search ...