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[Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars

Fully agreed. To concentrate one one DB platforms will not only saves time
and effort, also being efficiency to the system and can make more use of
advance functionality of the PostgreSQL & PostGIS.

You will have our full support.

Hannan

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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> Lars Helge Øverland
> Lead developer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
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>
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