This blog was written by Ahsan Hadi and co-written by Jason Davis. EnterpriseDB is about to release an update to the Connectors for Postgres and EDB Postgres. The update will include some new capabilities in the JDBC driver to support connection failover. Connection failover provides automatic and robust failover for Java applications connecting to Postgres via the JDBC driver. The idea is to...

There remains significant uncertainty about the future of the Government Digital Service (GDS) in following the departure of its primary champion, Mike Bracken, this past summer.

The only data structure recognized in traditional SQL databases was the row, and repeating groups were extracted into child rows linked through foreign keys. It worked well but could be somewhat artificial and cumbersome for programmers.

Released nearly 15 years ago, PostGIS is an open source extension to Postgres that spatially enables your database server, and follows the OGC Simple Features for SQL specification. If you are coming from another standards based spatial database you may notice similarities in the spatial data types, naming conventions, and functionality. You can easily install PostGIS using EDB StackBuilder and...

Most IT organizations have made large investments in infrastructure and applications that have been running the business for years. Keeping this infrastructure costs a lot of money, perhaps up to 80% of an IT budget.

In the Netherlands, municipal budgets have been under intense pressure. Since more must be done with less money, IT managers are looking for alternative database solutions to control IT costs.

Recent weeks have been strange in the world of enterprise software. It is as though we have properly broken a cycle of frustration among enterprise customers. You recognize the cycle.

A clear sign of changing times is the increasing number of companies in the financial services industry moving away from their traditional database solutions. One of the best examples is ABN AMRO Clearing, part of the state-owned ABN AMRO bank and a global leader in derivatives and equity clearing.

The database market is undergoing a transformation, and it’s affecting both the IT department as well as the finance department in businesses today. In fact, as data – and its management and security – becomes increasingly important to business success, the most enduring collaborations in many organizations are being formed between finance and IT.

It’s official – Postgres is taking the world by storm, and the proof is in the clouds. Bad jokes aside, it’s been a busy month for EnterpriseDB as we roll out new partnerships with major cloud platforms in Asia. The recent collaborations we’ve done with Alibaba’s cloud division Aliyun in China and KT Corp.’s uCloud in South Korea prove the adoption of Postgres is expanding on a global scale.