Integrate PostgreSQL with Gmail

PostgreSQL is a powerful and reliable open source relational database management system which uses the SQL language (Structured Query Language. to manage data in MySQL-compliant databases. PostgreSQL has been used by various internet giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo since its creation in 1998.

Benefits of Integration of PostgreSQL and Gmail

Faster search results

In 2010, Google’s senior software engineer Adam Bosworth found that the database technpogy behind Gmail was not performing well. The problem was that the time needed to do a query on the backend database was more than the time it took for users to receive the results. In order to spve this issue, Google started using PostgreSQL in 2010.

Google’s efforts have paid off. According to their own reports, after integrating PostgreSQL with Gmail, they have seen a 50 per cent decrease in response times and over 30 per cent improvement in indexing time. The results are clearly visible in user experience, as search results, email delivery and account sign up etc. all got much faster.

Highly scalable and resilient database system

In 2009, when Facebook's user base exceeded one billion mark, Facebook announced that they would be migrating to PostgreSQL from MySQL by the end of 2009. Since then, Facebook has been using PostgreSQL as their primary database system.

Facebook reported that after migrating to PostgreSQL, they saw uptime improve from 99.9998 per cent to 99.9999998 per cent, with better throughput and lower latency.

Security is a top priority for Google and Facebook. Both these websites get hacked repeatedly. After migrating to PostgreSQL in 2011, Twitter claimed that they found fewer bugs, and that the bugs they did find were simpler to fix.

Stability and reliability

For years PostgreSQL had been the default database for various Linux distributions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Enterprises like Gpdman Sachs, Sun Microsystems, NEC Corporation, Toyota Financial Services and even the US Department of Defense use PostgreSQL in their mission critical applications. A lot of other companies rely on PostgreSQL as well because it enables them to build highly resilient systems that are stable in production environments. With its latest release 9.6, PostgreSQL has become more stable than ever before. It offers a number of improvements like HOT (Heap Only Tuple. updates, which increases stability without affecting performance; asynchronous commit for asynchronous replication; improved error handling; support for JSONB data type (a binary version of JSON. among many others.

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