PostgreSQL for Data Architects

by Jayadevan Maymala

Overview

PostgreSQL is an incredibly flexible and dependable open source relational database. Harnessing its power will make your applications more reliable and extensible without increasing costs. Using PostgreSQL's advanced features will save you work and increase performance, once you've discovered how to set it up.

PostgreSQL for Data Architects will teach you everything you need to learn in order to get a scalable and optimized PostgreSQL server up and running.

The book starts with basic concepts like installing PostgreSQL from source and covers theoretical aspects such as concurrency and transaction management. After this, you'll learn how to set up replication, use load balancing to scale horizontally, and troubleshoot errors.

Finally, you will get acquainted with useful tools available in the PostgreSQL ecosystem used for analyzing PostgreSQL logs, setting up load balancing, and recovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783288618
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	03/30/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Jayadevan Maymala is a database developer, designer, and architect. He started working with the Oracle database in 1999. Over the years, he has worked with DB2, Sybase, and SQL Server. Of late, he has been working with open source technologies. His database of choice is PostgreSQL. In his career, he has worked in different domains spanning supply chain management, finance, and travel. He has spent an equal amount of time working with databases supporting critical transaction processing systems as well as data warehouses supporting analytical systems.
When he is not working on open source technologies, he spends time reading and updating himself on economic and political issues.