Postgres in Plain English

PostgreSQL is a powerful, free, and open-source database system built for reliability and handling massive amounts of data.

It an attractive choice for companies to store everything from user accounts and customer data through to website logs. It is open-source and constantly being improved by a large community of developers.

Postgres stores information in tables with clearly defined rules to provide a clear and simple way for complex data to be stored and managed.

What’s more, the tables have defined relationships with each other in order to make it easy to retrieve specific data points or subsets and conduct analysis across all the stored information.

This is known as an open-source relational database
management system (RDBMS).