Postgres has been a major beneficiary of the open source movement with organizations turning to the world’s most advanced open source relational database as the primary database for new applications, modernization efforts, and as an alternative to expensive traditional vendors.

It’s now a much easier and faster process for database administrators at U.S. Government agencies to replace expensive legacy database management systems, and meet public policy mandates to adopt more open source software. The Department of Defense (DoD) has published a Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for the open source-based EDB Postgres™ Advanced Server database from EnterpriseDB.

With digital transformation, software has become the most important tool to attract, keep and grow customer accounts. For a company to stay competitive in a market, its digital offerings need to stay up-to-date with modern technology, cool competitive features and growing user expectations.

Last November I wrote a blog, The Oracle SE2 Tea Party, about Oracle’s forced “upgrade” of its SE and SE1 customers to Oracle SE2 and the problems it causes for many Oracle users who have to either pay more for less performance or shift to new hardware infrastructure to be in compliance with the new license restrictions.

Data is ubiquitous due to the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. According to Forrester, 90% of the world’s data was created in the last two years, much of which is unstructured and unwieldy. Sensors, location beacons, GPS, mobile device interaction patterns and real-time locations drive new customer, partner, and value chain data that can make the difference between a mediocre and great customer experience.

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.