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Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday announced several open-source milestones, adding support for the PostgreSQL database on its Solaris 10 OS and unveiling new technologies in OpenSolaris, including a ...

PostgreSQL, while slightly slower in basic operations, excels in write-heavy workloads and complex queries thanks to advanced features including MVCC, parallel query execution and indexing options.

PostgreSQL, also sometimes referred to as Postgres, is one of the most widely used and deployed open-source database technologies and has been steadily iterated since its first release back in 1996.

A Microsoft-backed open source project aims to help address PostgreSQL's weaknesses as an analytics database. The project, which is under the permissive MIT License, plans to bring popular in-process ...