Marc Linster

Technical Fellow and advisor

Marc Linster, Ph.D., is a Technical Fellow and advisor at EDB. Marc is committed to EDB being an accelerator to providing architectural “know how” to help customers take advantage of Postgres without significant risk and cost. Marc believes that although new customer adoption of open source is easier than the experience of purchasing proprietary options, tools are still incredibly important, and EDB’s professional services practices provides them. Prior to his current role, Marc served as EDB's Chief Technology Officer.

Marc has an extensive background in engineering, technology and logistics with 20 years of management experience. He holds a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. Before joining EDB, Marc spent four years at Polycom, the leading maker of video communications equipment, where most recently he was a Senior Director, Engineering for Cloud and Hosted Solutions. Before Polycom, Marc was Co-founder and President of TriPoint Interactive, a global supply chain consulting and systems integration company. He spent six years at Avicon Group, first as CTO and then as Vice President of Operations. Marc is an avid equestrian.

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How the NHS can fill its £8bn funding hole

In the UK General Election fever the National Health Service (NHS) featured prominently with promises to find the £8bn in funding it will require in the next five years. NHS Chief Executive, Simon Stevens has also claimed he could find £22bn in savings by 2020, which means “efficiency” will remain a permanent fixture in the NHS lexicon. However, the former Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir David...

Postgres: Have Your NoSQL Cake and Eat it Too

Standalone NoSQL database solutions are easy to use, fast to deploy, and make getting an application up and running a piece of cake. That’s the sweet part though. What comes later, however, is a bellyache of solution management challenges, risks to data integrity and a loss of control in the data environment. Developers have been fast to adopt standalone NoSQL solutions because they are very easy...

42% of Database Pros Struggle to Manage NoSQL Solutions

Two years ago, my colleague Bruce Momjian wrote that relational databases would adapt to emerging database demands and incorporate the capabilities that emerging standalone NoSQL solutions provided. He has been proven correct with the expanded capabilities in Postgres alone with recent releases adding greater scaling, non-durable tables and JSON/JSONB capabilities. Today, you don't need a...

Now Live: PG XDK for Postgres NoSQL App Development

If you are a Postgres fan, and not living under a rock the past few months, then you have heard the buzz about JSONB coming to PostgreSQL 9.4. You may have also seen code samples that show how easy it is to create a document database in Postgres using JSON/JSONB. And you might have read about performance benchmarks that show Postgres outperforms MongoDB, the most popular document database, on key...
News

Postgres Outperforms MongoDB and Ushers in New Developer Reality

The newest round of performance comparisons of PostgreSQL and MongoDB produced a near repeat of the results from the first tests that proved PostgreSQL can outperform MongoDB. The advances Postgres has made with JSON and JSONB have transformed Postgres’ ability to support a document database.

EDB Makes Open Call for Postgres NoSQL Performance Benchmarks

EnterpriseDB has begun running comparison tests to help Postgres users better assess the NoSQL capabilities of Postgres. The tests compare PostgreSQL (often called Postgres) with MongoDB as recent advances have significantly enhanced Postgres’ capacity to support document databases. We are inviting an open review of our test results and our framework. We’ve made the materials available (see below...
EDB Labs

Mastering the Postgres Rollout

That famous journey began simply—just follow the yellow brick road. But as we all learned, that pretty little lane entered some pretty challenging territory pretty quickly.
EDB Labs

Pit Row: Getting Your Postgres Database to the Starting Line

Pay a visit to Pit Row at a race like the Daytona 500 and you’ll find teams crawling around the stock cars carrying bolt blasters, socket wrenches and super-sensitive listening devices. In the data center, the database administrator setting up his first Postgres database does much the same kind of work though the hotrod is the data environment, the tools are configuration settings and the crawling...
Business Transformation

It’s Not Your Database Causing Hair Loss

This may come as surprise to users new to Postgres but your biggest challenge in deploying Postgres for the first time may be your operating system, not learning the ins and outs of your new database. Those of you who still have hair may end up snatching yourselves baldheaded trying to maneuver the quirks and kinks of your OS even before turning your attention to your new Postgres database. This...

Postgres Adoption Trends Mean New User Demands

Our record-shattering growth in 2013 has given us a host of new users, both organizations new to Postgres and experienced users expanding their deployments across their enterprise. This range of new users has different needs. Users new to Postgres need advice and guidance that mirror the steps they’re taking as they are getting up to speed. More experienced users expanding their deployments need...