Business advantages of PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a free open source software (OSS). It's released under the PostgreSQL license. The PostgreSQL license is highly permissive, and PostgreSQL is not subject to monopoly and acquisition—because of this, companies have the following advantages:

• No associated licensing cost to PostgreSQL.
• Unlimited number of deployments of PostgreSQL.
• More profitable business model.
• PostgreSQL is SQL-standards-compliant; thus, finding professional developers is not very difficult. PostgreSQL is easy to learn, and porting code from one database vendor to PostgreSQL is cost-efficient. Also, the PostgreSQL administrative tasks are easy to automate, thereby reducing the staffing cost significantly.
• PostgreSQL is cross-platform, and it has drivers for all modern programming languages; thus, there is no need to change the company policy regarding the software stack in order to use PostgreSQL.
• PostgreSQL is scalable and gives high performance.
• PostgreSQL is very reliable; it rarely crashes. Also, PostgreSQL is ACID-compliant, which means that it can tolerate some hardware failure. In addition, it can be configured and installed as a cluster to ensure high availability (HA).