It’s been a while since PostgreSQL implemented support for JSON columns in its tables. Basic at the beginning, now it offers a lot of functionality that can come in handy when you have a PostgreSQL database, and make use of some of its cool stuff (like the ton of functions of PostGIS), but also need to store some non-structured data or with a user-defined schema.

Directly query custom PostgreSQL functions in the GraphQL API

How you can set up your local development database using docker. Fast and simple.

Database script for creating readonly user in PostgreSQL

In this short blog post we will connect DBeaver to Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) in two ( and a half ) different ways. First we will look at the recommended way of using the local Cloud SQL Proxy and secondly we will look at how-to hook up DBeaver directly to Cloud SQL using a secure connection.

PostgreSQL 12 comes with a great new feature, Generated Columns. A Generated Column is a special column in a table that contains data automatically generated from other data within the row. The content of the generated column is automatically populated and updated whenever the source data, such as any other columns in the row, are changed them

In Depth series of posts on managing PostgreSQL in different cloud vendors AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP, Azure

Benchmark comparison of AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud SQL), Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL

In MySQL or MariaDB we have generic, well performing solution like InnoDB, which works fine in majority of the cases, but we also have separate functions to work with JSON data, separate spatial indexes to speed up querying geometric data or fulltext indexes, helping with text data. In this blog, we will take a look at how MariaDB can be used to work with full text data.

Considering the current major use-case of a database as to retrieve data, it becomes very important that its performance is very high and It can only be achieved if data is fetched in the most efficient possible way from storage. There have been many successful inventions and implementations done to achieve the same. One of the well known approaches adopted by most databases is to have an index on the table.