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Leveraging the Features of Your Database With Postgres and Python

The Real Python Podcast

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The Advantages of Using Postgres in SQL

Python developers know about Postgres, but maybe don't know why they should be using it. "It's one of the richest geospatial databases in the world," says John Defterios from Heroku. The database is transactional DDL with rich data types and full text search. It can also do things like JSON support that are not sexy to other databases.

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