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With BigAnimal, EDB’s fully managed service offers 24x7 monitoring & operations, so you don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure of the database or availability. This includes automatic backups as well. We also handle the security, compliance and network configuration.

In the last few years, the global payment solutions industry has experienced incredible growth. Market leaders like ACI Worldwide are offering essential tools to major organizations, from insurance agencies to merchants

We are excited to announce the launch of Regions as a first-class construct in BigAnimal: you can now spin up a Region in advance of provisioning database clusters within that Region.

With 40 Postgres contributors, EDB has contributed extensively to the Postgres community over the years, including working on certain extensions.

The DBMS landscape is experiencing seismic changes right beneath our feet, innovators and market leaders across industries are taking notice. As of 2021, open source database licenses outpace commercial database licenses and this trend shows no signs of slowing.

EDB thanks everyone who has contributed to this great new release in any way! EDB is committed to helping the Community improve Postgres with each release, as it has done for the last 16 versions. For Postgres 15, EDB has made significant contributions.

A PostGIS cluster is essentially a PostgreSQL cluster with a primary and an arbitrary number of standby instances where the running operand image contains all the required PostGIS related extensions.

Your teams know your business, and there’s no substitute for their hands-on, lived-in insight. Just the same, self-support can’t compete with the hands-on, lived-in insight of those who know Postgres best—and will be there when you need them.

In this blog we look at how server definitions can be imported and exported from pgAdmin using the command line or the graphical user interface. This allows server definitions to be migrated between pgAdmin installations and shared with colleagues.

EDB Postgres for Kubernetes is a Kubernetes operator, designed by EDB to deploy and manage your PostgreSQL clusters in production environments. This does not mean that it is only useful as a production tool; it is also handy while developing applicat ...

Over the last few years, enterprises devoted to innovation have become tired of rising prices and restrictive licensing agreements. Postgres offers an alternative that’s flexible, extensible, innovative and ever-evolving, at a vastly superior price point.

The release of EDB Migration Portal 4.1 includes enhanced reporting, security improvements, fixes and several other features and updates. We encourage you to read all about this new release here.

  Database management is at the heart of organizing your technology, and technology is at the center of your company. Operations equal applications in the modern business landscape and the veracity of the databases supporting your apps must b ...

In this blog we demonstrate how to deploy PostgreSQL or EDB Advanced Server in the EDB BigAnimal Cloud using pgAdmin.

While freedom is critical and valuable, forgoing all database assistance in pursuit of it can prove to be a grave error. In fact, enterprise database support is often the best way to ensure that you maintain the freedom to fully control your own data.

What does High Availability actually mean when we’re discussing Postgres clusters? High Availability Architect, Shaun Thomas, explores answers to this question in this week's installment of PGPhriday.

This blog introduces a new benchmark framework for performance testing of PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server. Based on Ansible, it offers a highly configurable and easy to use way to run pgbench, TPROC-C, and TPROC-H tests across multiple servers at once in a consistent and reproducible manner. PostgreSQL and the operating system kernel can be configured and tuned as required, all using Ansible's Jinja2 templating to allow different runs to automatically use different parameters. Extensive logging and monitoring is also included, as well as hooks to allow customisation for installing and configuring your own extensions during test initialisation and logging custom stats.

With exorbitant pricing and restrictive licensing, Oracle databases are becoming less and less popular among businesses invested in innovation and infrastructure modernization.

This blog explains and provides a walkthrough of the pgAdmin AWS RDS deployment wizard which can be used to deploy a new PostgreSQL database in the Amazon AWS cloud and register it with pgAdmin so you can begin working with it immediately.

When looking for their ideal database, Fortuna Entertainment Group had transaction volume front-of-mind from the very beginning. As an online betting and gaming service, their applications have to be able to handle massive amounts of transactional requests from users.