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PostgreSQL 17 accelerates open source database with replication and  JSON tables


The PostgreSQL 17 database update includes new features that enterprise data professionals are going to benefit from.

Developers have been working on the database for more than 35 years, tracing its roots back to the University of California at Berkeley and evolving it as an open-source technology. Jozef de Vries, chief product engineering officer at EDB told VentureBeat that while having lots of third-party tools is useful, it also complicates operations for organizations. “The kind of thesis here with this incremental backup work is bringing more of that database lifecycle management functionality into the core server itself, to make the adoption, deployment, and day two activities, easier on our customers and more consistent,” de Vries said.

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