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12 SEPTEMBER 2011: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces the release of PostgreSQL 9.1. This latest version of the leading open source database offers innovative technology, unmatched extensibility, and new features such as synchronous replication, K-Nearest Neighbor indexing, and foreign data wrappers.
"PostgreSQL 9.1 provides some of the most advanced enterprise capabilities of any open source database, and is backed by a vibrant and innovative community with proven customer success. PostgreSQL is well positioned for building and running applications in the cloud," said Charles Fan, Sr. VP R&D, VMware.
Version 9.1 delivers several features which users have been requesting for years, removing roadblocks to deploying new or ported applications on PostgreSQL. These include:
"Heroku runs the largest PostgreSQL database-as-a-service in the world," said James Lindenbaum, Heroku co-founder. "The release of synchronous data replication with 9.1 provides our customers with innovative new ways of protecting mission-critical data, and validates PostgreSQL as one of the fastest-moving datastores available."
Our community of contributors innovates with cutting-edge features. Version 9.1 includes several which are new to the database industry, such as:
"OpenERP has always relied on the enterprise-class features of PostgreSQL to provide a fast, reliable and scalable foundation for the Business Applications supporting our customers' operations every day. Data integrity in highly concurrent and transactional contexts is a critical topic for us, and we're very enthusiastic about the new Serializable Snapshot Isolation of PostgreSQL 9.1!" said Olivier Dony, OpenERP Community Manager.
PostgreSQL's extensibility enables users to add new functionality to a running production database, and use them for tasks no other database system can perform. Version 9.1 adds new extensibility tools, including:
All of the above features, and more, are detailed on the What's New In 9.1 wiki page, as well as our release notes.
In PostgreSQL's 25th year of database development, our community continues to advance database technology with every annual release. Download version 9.1 now and experience the most advanced open source database system in the world.
About PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL is the leading open source database system, with a global community of thousands of users and contributors and dozens of companies and organizations. The PostgreSQL Project builds on 25 years of engineering, starting at the University of California, Berkeley, and has an unmatched pace of development today. PostgreSQL's mature feature set not only matches top proprietary database systems, but exceeds them in advanced database features, extensibility, security and stability. Learn more about PostgreSQL and participate in our community at http://www.postgresql.org.
Version 9.1 delivers several features which users have been requesting for years, removing roadblocks to deploying new or ported applications on PostgreSQL. These include:
Our community is innovating, delivering cutting-edge features which are new to the database industry. Some of these features are only available on PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL's extensibility enables users to add new functionality to a running production database, and use them for tasks no other database system can perform. Version 9.1 adds critical new extensibility features, including:
For explanations of these features and others, please see the following resources:
The POSTGRES project was inaugurated at the University of California, Berkeley, in June 1986 with the publication of the original POSTGRES design by Lawrence A. Rowe and Michael R. Stonebraker. In the 25 years since then, POSTGRES became an open source project, converted to using SQL, changed its name to PostgreSQL, and became one of the leading relational databases. Today, our community competes with some of the largest software companies in the world to deliver new database functionality and better performance.
There have been 23 releases of POSTGRES and PostgreSQL, including version 9.1. PostgreSQL is the only major SQL database system to have consistent, featureful releases every year.
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PostgreSQL uses the PostgreSQL License, a BSD-like license which only requires that the licensed source code maintain its copyright and licensing information. This OSI-certified license is widely appreciated as flexible and business-friendly, since it does not restrict the use of PostgreSQL with commercial and proprietary applications. Together with multi-company support and public ownership of the code, our license makes PostgreSQL very popular with vendors wanting to embed a database in their own products without fear of fees, vendor lock-in, or changes in licensing terms.
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"PostgreSQL 9.1 provides some of the most advanced enterprise capabilities of any open source database, and is backed by a vibrant and innovative community with proven customer success. PostgreSQL is well positioned for building and running applications in the cloud," said Charles Fan, Sr. VP R&D, VMware.
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"Heroku runs the largest PostgreSQL database-as-a-service in the world," said James Lindenbaum, Heroku co-founder. "The release of synchronous data replication with 9.1 provides our customers with innovative new ways of protecting mission-critical data, and validates PostgreSQL as one of the fastest-moving datastores available."
About Heroku: Heroku is the leading open platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease of use, automation, and reliability. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Heroku is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloud architecture. Heroku was recently named to the "Dow Jones FASTech 50 Start-ups to Watch" list, recognized as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Platforms as a Service" in April 2010, named to the Always OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies, and recognized as a "Best Products of 2009" and "Best Platform of 2010" by ReadWriteWeb. In April 2011, Heroku was named #2 on its annual list of "Best Places to Work" in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. For more information, please visit our web page and our blog or follow Heroku on Twitter. Heroku is a wholly owned subsidiary of salesforce.com. Contact: Jill Ratkevic
"OpenERP has always relied on the enterprise-class features of PostgreSQL to provide a fast, reliable and scalable foundation for the Business Applications supporting our customers' operations every day. Data integrity in highly concurrent and transactional contexts is a critical topic for us, and we're very enthusiastic about the new Serializable Snapshot Isolation of PosgtreSQL 9.1! Synchronous replication and more performance optimizations are two other reasons we are looking forward to the next release of PostgreSQL, truly the epitome of Open Source software," said Olivier Dony, OpenERP Community Manager.
About OpenERP: OpenERP S.A. is the editor of OpenERP, a comprehensive Open Source Business Application Suite, including CRM, Sales, Accounting, Project Management, Warehouse Management, Manufacturing, Human Resources, and more. Founded in 2005 by CEO Fabien Pinckaers, OpenERP thrives in a unique ecosystem combining the resources of its community, partner network and editor. The community (1500 active members as of August 2011) contributes every day to the enrichment of OpenERP. The network of partners, established in more than 65 countries, deploys the solution locally. Also available as an online service (SaaS), OpenERP is one of the most installed business suites worldwide (1,000 downloads/day). Media Contact: Nicoleta Gherlea +32-2-290-34-90
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