EnterpriseDB® (EDB™) works with a significant number of global brands that deploy EDB Postgres to support complex business-critical workloads.

With nearly 10 million downloads over the past five years, Postgres is the leading enterprise open source database. In a report The State of Open Source RDBMSs, 2015,* Gartner gives some compelling directions for IT professionals on their road to open source. Their advice? Adopt an open source relational database as a standard for new applications and for migrating those that don’t need special capabilities.

The release of PostgreSQL 9.5 marks a turning point for enterprises using PostgreSQL for the development of high-speed mobile, web and digital economy applications, many for customer engagement.

The number of open source software users is rising – and as Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal and champion of OSS famously said, “The numbers don’t lie.”

Parallelism is now a reality in PostgreSQL. With 9.6, I hope we will see many different forms of queries that can use parallelism to execute. For now, I will limit this discussion to what we can already do, which is Parallel Sequential Scans.

Fifty billion connected objects will invade the market over the next five years, according to some predictions.

With the holiday season officially underway I’m often impressed how well retailers are able to maintain – or unable to maintain – a level of service for their web sites. E-commerce continues to grow while traditional retail treads water at best. The spectacle of Black Friday aside, the crowds are still real, people may just be queued up electronically rather than physically and the amount of information being processed is staggering.

Contributed by Craig Silveira Organizations are being increasingly challenged to do more with less – develop innovative strategies, create compelling products, serve customers more effectively, all while facing limited resources. As a result, IT personnel have begun evaluating how they can manage the IT stack to find additional budget that can be applied back to more strategic initiatives. One...

As of December 1, 2015, Oracle® is no longer offering two of its most popular database license options, SE and SE1; replacing them instead with a new SE2 version which effectively increases license limitations to force more customers onto their Enterprise Edition—at an enormous cost increase.

Open source software has been saving organizations money for years in operating systems with Linux, in the middleware layer with tools like JBoss, and virtualization with Xen and other options. These IT organizations embarked on these journeys to open source alternatives to reconfigure IT spending and improve their agility to drive new innovation.