End Point Corporation primarily develops client systems using PostgreSQL as the database platform. PostgresSQL (also known as "Postgres") is a relational database management system which can be used to manage all types of data. Below we list some of the many reasons to choose PostgreSQL over Oracle, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server. For more information visit our PostgreSQL FAQ.
Why choose PostgreSQL?
No licensing or recurring fees
PostgreSQL is free, open source software which allows anyone to use the software on any number of servers without restrictions on number of users, connections, CPUs, or size of data set. There are no initial purchase or recurring fees.
Excellent support options
Users of PostgreSQL can obtain support from the developer community or by choosing to align their business with End Point Corporation or other companies for ongoing support. End Point provides top-level PostgreSQL support to all of our clients that have chosen PostgreSQL to drive their businesses.
Performance and scalability
PostgreSQL can be optimized for many situations, ranging from read-only information websites to multi-user ecommerce systems with high transactional load. Whether your site needs a single shared database server with a few tables, or multiple database servers storing millions of records, PostgreSQL is able to scale with the demands of your business.
Industry wide usage
Many companies and government agencies use PostgreSQL for their mission-critical, large-scale applications. The American Chemical Society has over 165,000 members and receives 12 million visits every day on their website. They currently use PostgreSQL to drive their journal archive which contains 125 years of publications consisting of 2.5 million pages and more than 1 terabyte of data. Networking giant Cisco uses PostgreSQL as an embedded database in many of their products. BASF, the world's largest chemical company, uses PostgreSQL to store the data for their U.S. agribusiness e-commerce website.
Support for Multiple Development Platforms
Whether you're building an Interchange or Ruby on Rails-based e-commerce website, a PHP-driven blogging site, or a Perl-based content management system, PostgreSQL can be used to manage the data. PostgreSQL programming language interfaces exist for Perl, Ruby, Java, .Net, Python, PHP, C, and C++, among others.
