PGConf.Russia 2015

The HealthSamurai team decided to outcross the FHIR open medical stasndard with PostgreSQL to create an open medical data platform

This talk will present pg_shard, a new PostgreSQL extension for sharding and transparently scaling out PostgreSQL tables for real-time insert, update, delete and select commands across many machines. This extension opens up PostgreSQL to a range of applications for which NoSQL databases were more suitable until now. We are sharing this extension with the PostgreSQL community as an open source project.

Japan has one of the largest PostgreSQL community and market in the world. PostgreSQL Users Group was formed in 1999 and it has over thousand of community members. The PostgreSQL market share is pretty high comparing with other countries: almost same as MySQL. In this talk I explain why PostgreSQL is so popular in Japan and what are the key factors to promote PostgreSQL from both social and technical aspects.