Choosing a database should be reliant upon the actual needs of the application you ??™ re building. Each
database server has its own major pros and perils, but the first hurdle you ??™ ll likely face is with being
honest with yourself about the likely traffic and capabilities exacted upon it. For instance, will your
website really receive more than 100 concurrent visitors or even as much as 100,000 visitors in one day?
Is absolute minimal latency a must? Will you be storing the entire works of William Shakespeare or are
you merely storing a handful of blog entries? By determining your actual needs rather than your fantasy
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requirements, you ensure that you ??™ re not overextending your development time and capabilities. At the
same time, though, you must still provide a little growing room for that just in case factor. You never
truly know, your website could become the next YouTube.com .
The Postgre SQL Database
PostgreSQL originally started out its life as a project to provide an open source enterprise - level database
server while maintaining absolute conformity with officially published standards and specifications.
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