The EDB Blog
The latest thought leadership pieces from EDB, including company and PostgreSQL announcements
Recent Posts
How Secure is your Postgres? Part 1: Access
July 1, 2020
This is the first of a series of blog posts that will help you examine the security of your Postgres deployment from end to end. The vast majority of...
Postgres Vision 2020 Virtual Event Highlights
June 23, 2020
We just rolled out our first large-scale virtual event, Postgres Vision 2020! The conference sparked a lot of opportunity and excitement over the past...
EDB Coming Soon to IBM Cloud Databases
June 22, 2020
Many organizations are sold on the benefits of running databases in the cloud, such as reduced costs and scalability. But it’s not always perfect. In...
Why Mastercard's Secret to Zero Downtime is PostgreSQL
June 19, 2020
Mastercard has used an array of database technologies, including Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Cassandra, Hadoop, DB2 and PostgreSQL, for years...
Why IKEA Retail Chose Postgres
June 15, 2020
Database technologies have significantly evolved over the past few years. Historically, relational databases were most popular; however, other types...
PostgreSQL Support: Why Is It So Important?
June 12, 2020
Open source and purely commercial databases have been living together for a long time, but the open-source model continues to gain more and more...
Quick and Reliable Failure Detection with EDB Postgres Failover Manager
June 10, 2020
This blog is part of a series of blogs on best practices for high availability. In previous blogs, we discussed What Does High Availability Really...
Gartner Report 2020: How to Succeed at Database and DBMS Migration
June 4, 2020
According to Gartner and their strategic planning assumptions, “by 2023 over 70% of organizations will need to migrate to a new Database Management...
Postgres: A Strategic Tool When Deployed Properly
June 3, 2020
This article summarizes best practices and lessons learned from working with large and mid-size companies in their deployment of Postgres. Some...
PostgreSQL Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) Trade-offs: Bounded vs. Archived vs. Replication Slots
May 28, 2020
This week, a customer I was working with wanted help setting wal_keep_segments—the number of extra transaction log files to keep on the primary...