Drupal Mountain Camp 2025

PostgreSQL and MySQL can do JSON too
2025-03-12 , Parsenn

You don't need a NoSQL database to work with JSON


Postgres and MySQL have powerful capabilities to work with JSON. This allows you to combine the flexibility of less structured data with the proven reliability of those popular relational databases.
I will show how to leverage the various JSON functions to work with JSON data inside a relational database.

David Buchmann works at Liip as Symfony expert. He is active in several Open Source projects, notably the FOSHttpCache library and the HTTPlug client abstraction. When he is not coding, he enjoys travelling with his girlfriend, music, Magic the Gathering and other games.