Database administrators need tools for database maintenance, performance optimization, configuration, and highly availability. EnterpriseDB (EDB) leads the industry in creating best-in-class Postgres tools to support DBAs with their mission critical enterprise deployments.

Choosing a database solution is one of the most important decisions for a company that is rolling out a website or developing a new in-house application. The open-source version of PostgreSQL can be a good option for small companies. But enterprise-level database applications often require more tools and capabilities in order to scale.

PostgreSQL has advanced in terms of features, performance, and scalability for many core systems. However, one of the problems that many enterprises still complain about is bloat.

The rate of adoption of cloud services among central and local government, and other public sector bodies, is clearly on the increase, which is not surprising given the UK Govt Cloud First strategy.

EDB Postgres Failover Manager (EFM) supports multiple ways to connect applications with the new master database after a failover or promotion. In many cases, a virtual IP address (VIP) can be used, and Failover Manager will move the VIP as needed. On cloud providers where the VIP is not an option, script hooks can be used to move a resource (e.g. an Elastic IP Address on AWS) to the new master node.

How a global financial technology, trading, and information services provider that builds solutions supporting securities transactions all of over the world used EDB Postgres to reduce DBMS TCO and gain flexibility.

Quest Software recently released Toad Edge 2.0, which adds support for PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres. This reduces the time that DBAs and developers need to spend managing their Postgres databases, while ensuring optimal performance.

Picking up on our last post on moving databases to the cloud, now, let’s look at what is involved with migrating your database workload to the cloud.

This blog will continue the discussion of parallel query in PostgreSQL. In the previous blog of this series, we learned about parallel index scans, its design in PostgreSQL and the performance improvement achieved for a few queries on the industrial benchmark of TPC-H.

High costs and vendor lock-in prompted the infrastructure architects to consider alternatives for the database. That led the team to open source-based Postgres Plus Advanced Server from EnterpriseDB (EDB) and a relationship that has expanded in recent years along with the Postgres footprint at ABN AMRO.