Extremely extensible (extensions, hooks) 3. The reasons for its popularity? There are several, as consultant Tanel Poder neatly summarizes: 1. The PostgreSQL renaissance is several years old now, something I’ve written about repeatedly. No, the real question is why developers like it so much right now. The real question isn’t why developers like PostgreSQL.
But among the relational crowd, one database keeps growing in popularity at the expense of its more established peers. Even as NoSQL databases keep booming, the relational party is very far from over.
