Users depend on databases to carry out meaningful work. Whether it’s connected to a mission-critical application or helping a single user carry out a very specific task, databases must be well-maintained in order to provide high performance. Proactively monitoring databases is one of the best ways to ensure a smooth long-term operation with minimal downtime and predictable costs. The Benefits of...

Once again, we’ve got experts out on the road speaking with Postgres users. Here is where you can find us this month. We hope to see you in our travels to talk about all things Postgres. PGConf Asia in Bali, Indonesia We start at PGConf Asia in Bali, Indonesia on Monday, September 9 with a keynote by Bruce Momjian, co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group and EDB...

Managing large tables is a big challenge. But maintaining good performance and manageability for those large tables is even a bigger challenge. Luckily, Postgres 11 provides several ways of dealing with this problem. In our series on Postgres performance, we will discuss table partitioning in this first part and indexing in the next. In this article, we describe different Postgres partitioning...

Revolutionary multi-master clustering technology EDB Postgres Distributed selected by leading Data Security Company for their distributed database EDB has announced a collaboration with Gemalto, a Thales company, on an industry-leading enterprise key management platform. The platform combines Gemalto’s SafeNet KeySecure, and bi-directional replication (BDR) through EDB Postgres Distributed to...

The EDB Postgres Migration Toolkit (MTK) is a powerful command-line tool that offers granular control of the process of migrating of database objects and data from other database management systems to EDB Postgres Advanced Server and PostgreSQL.

Michael Stonebraker Delivers Keynote at Fourth Annual Postgres Vision It was inspiring to hear the original architect of Postgres, Michael Stonebraker, reflect on the early days – the highs and the lows of Postgres development over a 10 year period. Revisiting his remarks when he was awarded the Turing Award (known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing"), Dr. Stonebraker drew parallels to a bicycle...

The day started with the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, delivering the keynote presentation at the fourth annual Postgres Vision event in Boston. The Turing Prize winner (known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing") described the early days of the web for the 350 attendees right up to the present day.

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Michael Stonebraker will deliver the day two keynote presentation at our fourth annual Postgres Vision conference in Boston. Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than forty years. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the...

We are thrilled to announce that Tim Berners-Lee will deliver the keynote presentation at our fourth annual Postgres Vision conference in Boston.

Migrating from Oracle to Postgres isn’t as simple as flipping a switch. It requires a comprehensive set of tools that tightly integrate with your existing Oracle estate, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2 estate to ensure a responsible and successful deployment. For critical enterprise features like high availability and disaster recovery, the right management tools also make it easy to support...