Vibhor Kumar

Vice President, Performance Engineering and Architecture Team, EDB

Vibhor Kumar is Vice President, Performance Engineering and Architecture at EDB, with 12+ years of leadership experience in designing innovative business solutions for customers. He has many years of experience helping large enterprises (including Fortune 500) adopt, and scale their Open Source strategy through Postgres by migrating from proprietary databases or developing new applications in on-prem, microservices, or the cloud.

In his current role, he leads a team of highly skilled engineers across the world, ensuring that clients' Postgres database systems are optimized for maximum performance and scalability. In addition to EDB, I have worked at IBM, BMC Software, and CMC Ltd in India. I blog and am frequently invited to speak at conferences and events to share my thoughts and expertise on topics related to DevOps, cloud, database architecture, and optimization.

Vibhor has a Master's degree in Computer Application and is certified in MongoDB, DB2, Oracle, and PostgreSQL/Postgres Advanced Server. He is a student of strength-based leadership, and believe strongly that developing trust is the foundation to creating opportunity for building long-term growth.

 

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Data Replication from Oracle Logical Standby to EDB Postgres

At EnterpriseDB ® (EDB ™), we are sometimes presented with individual customer use cases or requests that call for the development of innovative solutions to support their deployment of the EDB Postgres Platform. For example, one of our customers wanted to leverage Oracle ® Logical standby for replication to EDB Postgres. And they wanted to know if the EDB Postgres Replication Server supported...

The pg_rewind Improvements in PostgreSQL 9.6

The pg_rewind tool was first introduced in PostgreSQL 9.5. This is best used in a situation when a standby becomes a master, then the old master can be reattached to the new master as a standby without restoring it from the new base backup. The tool examines the timeline histories of the new master (the old standby) and the old master to determine the point where they diverged, and it expects to...
EDB Labs

Partition Pruning in EDB Postgres 9.5

One of my colleagues who was recently working with a customer has presented a customer case. According to him, the customer has a partitioned table and EDB Postgres™ was not applying the partition pruning in his query. So, I thought to blog about partition pruning, so that EDB Postgres developers and DBAs can benefit.
Technical Blog

User Tip: Postgres Plus 9.4 and Global Temporary Tables

EnterpriseDB (EDB) customers who moved/migrated their database from Oracle to EDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server (PPAS) frequently ask for Global Temporary Table in PPAS. Currently, PPAS doesn’t support Global Temporary tables. However, there is a way users can achieve this functionality in PPAS. Before we continue with the implementation, let's first understand characteristics of Global...
Business Transformation

Postgres and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Security has always been a great concern of Enterprises. Especially, if you have crucial information stored in the database, you would always prefer to have high security around it. Over the years, technologies have evolved and provided better solutions around it.

Dynamic RLS implementation in PPAS 9.3

In the course of my work at EnterpriseDB, migrating Oracle databases to EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server is a common task. However, now and then we encounter unique situations. While working on a migration project recently, we encountered a new use case for RLS (Row level Security). The customer had a centralized database where it stored a huge number of transactions. These...

Compiling PLV8 with Postgres Plus Advanced Server

PLV8 is a programming language that lets users write stored procedures and triggers in JavaScript and store them in their Postgres database. This allows application programmers to write a lot of their server-side programming in the same language they use to build their web client applications. Fewer languages to learn usually means fewer mistakes and faster time to completion. The extensive...

Meet BART – A New Tool for Backup And Recovery Management

EnterpriseDB recently launched a new tool for backup and recovery – named simply EDB Backup and Recovery Tool, or BART. This tool makes the DBA’s life easier by simplifying the tasks for managing their Postgres physical backup and recovery tasks, whether they are PostgreSQL or Postgres Plus Advanced Server deployments. BART has the following advantages over custom scripts for managing backups: 1...
Product Updates

Switchover/Switchback in PostgreSQL 9.3

PostgreSQL 9.3 has two key software updates making switchover/switchback easier in High Availability configurations. First, let’s address the software patches and their descriptions: 1. First patch was committed by Fujii Masao. Patch commit# 985bd7d49726c9f178558491d31a570d47340459 With this patch, the walsender process tries to send all outstanding WAL records to the standby in replication when...
EDB Labs

Monitoring approach for Streaming Replication with Hot Standby in PostgreSQL 9.3.

The people using PostgreSQL and the Streaming Replication feature seem to ask many of the same questions.