EnterpriseDB Community Contributions

EnterpriseDB and the Community

EnterpriseDB is deeply involved with and committed to the Postgres community with the goal of helping make PostgreSQL based products of the highest quality and value to consumers.

EnterpriseDB participates in the PostgreSQL community in many ways including:

  • Contributing product features and fixes to PostgreSQL (e.g. Index Only Scans, Heap Only Tuples) and sister projects
  • Funding community projects (e.g Full Text Search)
  • Helping shepherd customer contributions back to the community (e.g. NTT and replication)
  • Employing key community members (e.g. Bruce Momjian, Dave Page, and more)
  • Influencing product direction by extensive contact with and support of enterprise customers worldwide
  • Creating freely available one-click binary installers for PostgreSQL
  • Creating StackBuilder enabling the distribution of PostgreSQL based components
  • Creating and distributing StackBuilder modules:
    • PostgreSQL Tuning Wizard
    • MySQL Migration Wizard
    • xDB Replication server
  • Hosting StackBuilder components for 3rd party community contributors
  • Writing freely available documentation (e.g. pgAdmin, GridSQL)
  • Creating free tutorials for PostgreSQL on multiple topics and platforms
  • Creating and publishing free instructional webinars (e.g. Tuning, Administration, Replication and more)
  • Sponsoring worldwide PostgreSQL events like PG East, PG West, PG Europe, and PG Con
  • Promoting press relations on behalf of PostgreSQL
  • Creating and hosting community surveys
  • Encouraging the growth of the PostgreSQL ecosystem with partnerships
  • Creating community projects (e.g. GridSQL)
  • Hosting PostgreSQL and Postgres Plus forums
  • Building and marketing the Postgres Plus products (e.g. Solution Pack and Advanced Server)
  • Creating and providing Software Subscriptions to PostgreSQL based products
  • Offering indemnification for PostgreSQL based products like Postgres Plus Advanced Server
  • Providing 24/7 Technical Support with access to PostgreSQL experts with professional SLAs
  • Offering RemoteDBA Services for PostgreSQL based installations (i.e. staff augmentation)
  • Offering pre-packaged and custom PostgreSQL consulting services (including database migrations)
  • Creating and providing world-wide web-based training (e.g. for DBAs and Application Developers)