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...

Ashnik, a leading technology consultancy in Southeast Asia, was appointed by one of Singapore’s top insurance companies to help it through a digital transformation initiative that would see it migrate an existing application to a modern platform.

Postgres Sees a Sharp Rise in Popularity with Developers For a long time now, PostgreSQL has been one of the most frequently deployed relational database management systems. Over the past few years, however, it has seen a sharp rise in popularity with developers. According to DB-Engines, PostgreSQL (or Postgres) was ranked the fourth most popular database management system in April 2019, as scored...

EDB experts will be speaking this month at industry events in the U.S., Poland, Austria, and Canada about how the popular open source Postgres database management system can be used by enterprises to manage their vital data most effectively and securely with predictable cost and no lock-in.

A security discussion centered around auditing users and roles in PostgreSQL.

In the days of cloud computing and agile development, it might seem that being a DBA is somewhat less appealing as a career choice. However, the role of DBA is changing; it is not going away. In fact, it is becoming even more important. That said, if DBAs are to explain their value to the rest of the business, they must be seen as more than the company’s data librarians.