Ali Cloud has released PostgreSQL 10 high availability local SSD with JSONB, BRIN index, GROUPING SETS/CUBE/ROLLUP and UPSERT.

In 2015, Ali Cloud announced the official launch of RDS for PostgreSQL service. At that time, Ali Cloud became the first cloud computing service provider in China to support MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL relational databases simultaneously.

On the cloud, users can enjoy the PostgreSQL engine’s high compatibility with SQL standards and NoSQL, powerful ability to process complex queries, and rich plug-in support. In addition, users can greatly reduce operation and maintenance costs and hardware investment.

It is now the fourth year that Alibaba Cloud has supported PostgreSQL.

Ali Cloud database RDS for PostgreSQL has become a practical database with many functions including easy processing of spatial information, strong NoSQL compatibility, support for full-text search, support for OSS cloud storage expansion, support for data warehouse data sharing, etc. The IoT service, which integrates JSON, GIS and IP network types, has a good performance.

Ali Cloud has released PostgreSQL 10 with new features such as JSONB, BRIN indexing, GROUPING SETS/CUBE/ROLLUP and UPSERT.

PostgreSQL 10 high availability supports parallel sequential scanning, syndication, and aggregation, and the new version also supports full text retrieval of phrases to improve processing performance. Avoiding “double freezing” of expired data reduces the impact on automatic data clearing of large tables.

While PostgreSQL has a number of advantages, it also has some pain points for users, such as administrative complexity. PostgreSQL management (such as backup and restoration, high availability, performance optimization, monitoring, capacity expansion, and version upgrade) is difficult for ordinary developers without professional operation and maintenance knowledge. Alibaba Cloud RDS for PostgreSQL can help managers with less operational experience accomplish these tasks easily.