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Postgres Databaseλ︎

TODO::Content may be a little dated, sorryλ︎

Content update during the Winter of 2020

Postgres is a modern and powerful relational database that also supports storing of json, xml and object relationships. Postgres has a strong open source community behind it and is actively maintained. Postgres is also highly scalable database with drivers for all the major programming languages.

In this workshop we are going to use Heroku Postgres, a database on demand service that requires no local installation.

Hint:: Alternatively, you can use a local instance of Postgres if you are happy to run it on your laptop.λ︎

next.jdbc - a modern approach to relational databases with Clojureλ︎

See the next.jdbc getting started guide for lots of useful information on writing SQL queries in Clojure.

PostgreSQL Resourcesλ︎