Contributed by Pierre Fricke The world is experiencing the greatest information explosion in history: -- 90% of the world’s data was created in the last five years, and most of it is unstructured. The volume, velocity, and variety of data are unprecedented. -- Gartner says by 2020, 25 billion connected things will be generating data 24x7x365. This incredible expansion in the volume, velocity, and...

One of the most frequent questions we get here at EnterpriseDB® (EDB™) from database administrators (DBAs) and developers is, “How does EDB Postgres™ compare, side-by-side, to Oracle?” To provide answers, EDB has prepared a new eBook, “A Technical Comparison of EDB Postgres™ Enterprise and Oracle® Enterprise,” to provide DBAs important guidance.

Enterprises are under pressure to innovate by deploying new web, mobile, cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications that better engage customers and harvest greater insight from operational data.

The last five years have produced a significant increase in global organizations deploying Postgres across their organizations and calling for higher performance as they discovered the value and sought to expand its use.

Data replication has become a more strategic operation as datacenters expand in complexity and geographically. Data is increasingly off-loaded from transactional systems into specialized applications and databases for greater analysis or digital innovation. But by its very design, replication can cause latency on transactional workloads and slow performance on many systems.

Database reliability is an ongoing process, not a one-time activity. And your database disaster recovery (DR) plans are a key part of keeping your business systems reliable.

Noted psychologist Noel Burch developed a model called the “Four Stages for Learning Any New Skill” to better understand the often slow and uncomfortable process of learning something new.

EnterpriseDB® (EDB™) developed a high-performance tool for loading data in bulk called EDB*Loader that is twice as fast as PostgreSQL COPY and outperforms standard SQL statement for bulk loading of JSONB data.

Middleware doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Considered the glue that holds together the more complex and more business-critical components in the software stack, middleware is often installed and forgotten. But middleware can have significant impact on the operation and performance in the system.

There is a new index type in PostgreSQL version 9.5 called BRIN, for "Block Range Index". BRIN is an exciting feature for the 9.5 release because it can quickly organize very large tables for analysis and reporting, moving PostgreSQL deeper into the big data space.