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[Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all for the feedback on this issue!

regards,

Lars


On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Hannan Khan <hannank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lars Helge Øverland
>> Lead developer, DHIS 2
>> University of Oslo
>> Skype: larshelgeoverland
>> lars@xxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>
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Lars Helge Øverland
Lead developer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
Skype: larshelgeoverland
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