Hello Lars
I hope you are well.
I fully agree with your assessment and the benefits are clear.
Best regards,
JM

> El 08/09/2017, a las 10:26, Lars Helge Øverland <l...@dhis2.org> escribió:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to bring up the idea of solely support PostgreSQL for DHIS 2 for 
> production use to get feedback from the community.
> 
> The DHIS 2 team is seeing clear benefits of moving to PostgreSQL-only. The 
> main ones are:
> 
> 1. Supporting and testing for more than one database platform is 
> time-consuming. The majority of DHIS 2 implementations is using PostgreSQL 
> already.
> 
> 2. PostgreSQL supports advanced geospatial features through PostGIS. We are 
> already depending on these for the GIS module to work optimally (i.e. for 
> event clustering in GIS). There are no direct equivalent in e.g. MySQL. We 
> are also considering using PostGIS data types in main data model.
> 
> 3. PostgreSQL will provide some impressive features which will become very 
> useful for us in version 10 
> <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10> and 11. E.g. native 
> partitioning, parallel queries, logical replication, foreign tables and 
> improved query performance will be useful and allow us to develop the next 
> DHIS 2 analytics solution.
> 
> 
> We are aware this will be inconvenient for users of other databases such as 
> MySQL, but there is the option of migrating your database through the DHIS 2 
> metadata and data value import-export feature.
> 
> On a technical note, we will keep the Hibernate development framework and 
> keep supporting the H2 database for unit testing purposes.
> 
> Please let us know your thoughts on this.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Lars
>  
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lars Helge Øverland
> Lead developer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> Skype: larshelgeoverland
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