In the last ten years attitudes towards open source in enterprise IT environments have changed dramatically, as users have shifted from skepticism about its ability to cope with mission-critical workloads to deploying it widely across their infrastructures.

Why IT companies are turning to open source to address the shortage of graduates, an ageing workforce and the changing working habits.

PostgreSQL Europe kicks off its 11th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU 2019) this week in Milan, Italy, and the EDB team will be attending in force! A number of our EDB colleagues will be speaking at the conference, including Lætitia Avrot, Andres Freund, Sebastiaan Alexander Mannem, Bruce Momjian, Marc Linster, Robert Haas, Ed Boyajian and Dave Page.

We would like to share some exciting news for EDB and welcome Laetitia Avrot, who is joining us as a Senior Database Consultant in France. Those of you who are involved in the PostgreSQL community will already know Laetitia, as she is an active participant who has been leading important work to promote the role of women in the community. An Opportune Time This is an opportune time to have Laetitia...

PostgreSQL 12 is focused on performance and optimization. This release wasn’t built with brand-new, shiny features in mind; instead, it’s a finely-tuned, well-polished implementation of existing PostgreSQL capabilities. Because new versions of PostgreSQL are released every year, not every new feature is fully capable when it is introduced. After a couple of releases, when the feature has had a...

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.