Postgres Plus^® White Papers and Data Sheets

Which Postgres is Right for Me?

Discover the differences between PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server and optimize your choice of open source database. You'll learn enough about the differnt capabilities, modules, and uses for each product to make the best Postgres choice for your organization.

Postgres Plus Technical Evaluation Guide

This document outlines common approaches and topics to evaluating open source databases in general and Postgres Plus databases in particular. In includes links to multiple assets designed to inform you of all aspects of evaluating an open source database.

Beyond PostgreSQL: A Look Inside Postgres Plus Advanced Server
EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server builds on the rock-solid PostgreSQL foundation to deliver significant value-added features not available in the community edition.

Web 2.0 Database Strategies: New Applications Need New Architectures
The objective of this white paper is to help you determine whether to adopt an open source database as part of your IT infrastructure. Further, the paper explores three adoption strategies IT organizations are using successfully today.

A Manager's Guide to Oracle Cost Containment

This paper identifies popular Oracle cost containment strategies and provides helpful case studies that illustrate how Oracle costs are being managed in the field today at Sony Online Entertainment and FTD florists.

Delivering Oracle^® Compatibility: An EnterpriseDB White Paper
Take a high-level tour through the five main areas of Oracle Compatibility built into Postgres Plus Advanced Server. For a more detailed document, download the Oracle Compatibility Developer's Guide.

Oracle^® Database Migration: Pitfalls and Promise
Read why past migration tools and strategies fail and why it is still so difficult for organizations to move from one database technology to another. This discussion is followed by a brief review of EntepriseDB's revolutionary compatibility software and an actual migration walk-through using EnterpriseDB's unique Oracle Migration tools.

Oracle^® Compatibility Developer's Guide
This guide describes the Oracle compatibility features of Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Oracle compatibility means that an application runs in an Oracle environment as well as in a Postgres Plus Advanced Server environment with minimal or no changes to the application code.

Postgres Plus 8.4 vs. MySQL^® 5.5: Comparison and Commentary
This paper provides an extensive feature by feature comparison between Postgres Plus Standard and Advanced Servers v8.4 against MySQL v5.5 including the InnoDB storage engine. Each section is followed with commentary.

Breaking the Scalability Barrier with Infinite Cache

This white paper describes the Infinite Cache architecture, how it works, the details of key features, monitoring statistics, and performance test results.

EnterpriseDB Engineering Study: Performance Benchmarking
EnterpriseDB engineers put three databases through rigorous performance benchmarking. Using the open source benchmark, BenchmarkSQL, EnterpriseDB engineers compare EnterpriseDB with MySQL and a popular proprietary database.

High Availability Database Solutions for PostgreSQL and Postgres Plus
This paper discusses the failover and redundancy capabilities of specific high availability products that can be used in conjunction with PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus, and the Oracle-compatible database Postgres Plus Advanced Server.

Postgres Plus and JBoss^®: New Division of Labor for New Enterprise Applications
Traditional Web and enterprise application architectures leverage JBoss extensively to service compute-, display- and data-intensive operations. But Web 2.0 and other advanced applications require much higher volumes of transactional data, and their scaling requirements are indeterminate. This paper suggests a rebalancing of responsibilities between JBoss and Postgres Plus.