Business advantages of PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a free open source software (OSS). It is released under the PostgreSQL license. The PostgreSQL license is highly permissive, and PostgreSQL is not subject to monopoly and acquisition--due to which, 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, thus reducing the staffing cost significantly.
• PostgreSQL is cross-platform, and it has drivers for all modern programming languages, so 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 to that, it can be configured and installed as a cluster to ensure high availability (HA).