PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is an object-relational database system, often compared with MySQL, which is a (purely) relational database management system (RDBMS). Both are open source and use tables but have their differences.
For example, Postgres is largely SQL compliant while MySQL is partially compliant, and MySQL performs faster in terms of read speed while PostgreSQL is faster at injecting complex queries. For more information about Postgres, please visit https://www.postgresql.org/.
You can install Postgres on many different operating systems, including Linux, macOS, and Windows. Depending on your operating system, you can follow the official guide at https://www.postgresql.org/download/ to install it on your machine. We will show you how to install and secure it on Linux, specifically Ubuntu, in the following steps:
- Update your local package index and install Postgres from Ubuntu's default repositories using Ubuntu&apos...
