Agencies across the U.S. government have adopted EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) from EDB®. One of those agencies is critical to securing information for the nation’s defense initiatives and handles a wide range of data, and, in particular, considerable stores of geospatial information.

There has been a lot of talk about database automation in the last six months and how, as if by magic, it will mean companies no longer have to worry about cyber-security. Sadly, the reality is somewhat different. Automating database functionality does not absolve you of your security related responsibilities.

Anyone running a database in a production environment with over a hundred users should seriously consider employing a connection pooler to keep resource usage under control.

Industry analyst firm, 451 Research, just recently issued a report providing an overview of EnterpriseDB, its history and recent product news including the EDB Postgres Migration Portal, EDB Postgres Ark DBaaS and Postgres Enterprise Manager. Here are some excerpts: - “EnterpriseDB, considered one of the leading forces behind PostgreSQL adoption, is on a mission to give customers the choice of...

TOAST stands for The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique. EDB Postgres and PostgreSQL use a fixed page size (commonly 8 KB), and does not allow tuples to span multiple pages. Therefore, it is not possible to store very large field values directly.

SQL will be turning 50 by the end of the decade. For a technology that’s still widely in use today, that’s quite the achievement — but it’s no surprise. Over the years, organizations have continued building their relational databases using SQL because of its extreme power, flexibility and reliability.

Being an analytics/reporting product company, we’ve worked with a fair amount of customers who run Postgres/Redshift for their analytics, and the same fair amount who uses MySQL.

We’re extremely proud to once again be included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Reading through their summary of EnterpriseDB and EDB Postgres, a few things in particular stood out to me.

PostgreSQL Europe kicked off its 10th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU 2018) this week in Lisbon, Portugal and I’m thrilled to be attending on behalf of EDB.

There is a lot of excitement around today’s release of PostgreSQL 11 – the big annual software update that represents the combined efforts of everyone in the community.