Main Features
- Full support for stored procedures and triggers
- Full ACID compliant transactions
- Referential integrity
- Multi Generational Architecture (sometimes called MVCC)
- Support for External Functions (UDFs)
- SQL activity can send asynchronous notification events to clients
- Third party tools, including GUI administrative tools and replication tools
- Careful writes - fast recovery, no need for transaction logs
- Many access methods: native/API, dbExpress drivers, ODBC, OLEDB, .Net provider, JDBC native type 4 driver, Python module, PHP, Perl
- Incremental backups
- Full cursor implementation in PSQL
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