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PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a full-featured open-source (O)RDBMS.
  • provides a relational engine with:
    • efficient implementation of relational operations
    • very good transaction processing (concurrent access)
    • good backup/recovery (from application/system failure)
    • novel query optimisation (genetic algorithm-based)
    • replication, JSON, extensible indexing, etc. etc.
  • already supports several non-standard data types
  • allows users to define their own data types
  • supports most of the SQL3 standard