EDB and Nutanix Partner to Make Postgres Ready for the Enterprise

We're excited to share the latest development in our partnership with Nutanix, which brings the enterprise-grade capabilities of EDB Postgres AI (our intelligent platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads) to Nutanix private and multi-cloud infrastructure solutions.

Our journey to bring EDB Postgres AI to Nutanix customers begins with a new product integration. As announced at Nutanix .NEXT in Barcelona this week, Nutanix Database Service (NDB) now fully supports EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS), EDB’s mission critical, Oracle-compatible Postgres engine. This integration empowers our joint customers to accelerate application modernization, drive operational efficiency, and support Postgres for the most demanding enterprise workloads.

Now, customers can use NDB to automate provisioning, cloning, patching, and backing up EDB Postgres database instances. On top of this, customers can also leverage NDB’s Kubernetes and Ansible integrations to make EPAS easily accessible to platform engineering teams and developers.

For Nutanix customers new to EDB Postgres AI, it provides all the advantages of open source Postgres with essential enterprise-grade features. These include performance enhancements like automated tuning, detailed wait states for low-level performance analytics, and AWR-like snapshot reports. On the security front, EDB offers robust data redaction, privilege analysis, EDB Audit, user profiles, and SQL/Protect. Moreover, EDB’s industry-leading Oracle compatibility, including asPL/SQL support, ensures a smooth transition from legacy database systems, allowing queries written for Oracle to run on Postgres with minimal adjustments. Finally, EDB stands out for its support and services, bringing unparalleled expertise as the leading committer to Postgres.

Three Key Trends Driving the Strategic Partnership

So, why now? The timing of this partnership expansion aligns perfectly with three key trends.

• PostgreSQL has surged in popularity over the last several years, becoming the top database choice for developers building modern and data-intensive applications. It also  appeals to those migrating away from expensive commercial databases, with PostgreSQL’s thriving community of contributors continually enriching the open-source platform with valuable features and capabilities. As a result, more and more Nutanix customers have been seeking support for enterprise-grade Postgres.
• The adoption of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a paradigm shift that simplifies and accelerates database access for developers. NDB brings a DBaaS operating model to databases across private and multi-cloud environments. By integrating with EDB Postgres AI, NDB enables developers to  swiftly deploy enterprise-grade Postgres to support rapid software development. And because DBaaS reduces the database administration burden through automation, the new integration lessens the load on DBAs and IT professionals responsible for managing EDB Postgres AI at scale.
• Organizations are reassessing their public cloud spend and are increasingly adopting  hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. This strategic shift necessitates a way to manage database deployments across on-premises data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. NDB supports EDB Postgres AI databases running both on-premises and in the public cloud, providing a unified operating model across environments to dramatically reduce operational complexity.

Details of the NDB-EDB Partnership

The enhanced NDB-EDB partnership now empowers organizations to leverage the benefits of EDB Postgres AI in their own data centers, all while embracing a streamlined cloud operating model. This means fast, seamless database self-service for developers and simplified push-button database administration, thanks to NDB. Let’s break it down even further.

With Nutanix + EDB Postgres AI you can…

1. Empower developers to swiftly deploy both dev/test and production-ready EDB Postgres AI database instances using the EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) engine in minutes, utilizing just a few lines of code directly from development environments.
2. Automate essential database administration tasks like provisioning, cloning, patching and backups to ensure consistent operational and security best practices across your entire EDB Postgres AI fleet. This also frees up time for DBAs and IT to work on higher-value activities, such as optimizing performance. 
3. Accelerate and simplify migration processes from legacy commercial databases, effectively reducing database licensing and management costs while increasing business agility. Leverage migration tools and services to expedite and de-risk migrations, enabling the seamless operation of many applications originally written for commercial databases with minimal to no changes. 
4. Maximize efficiency by building EDB Postgres AI clusters tailored to your specific requirements, utilizing a mix of Nutanix compute-only and storage-only nodes. Additionally, control the use of operating system resources to protect the system from processes that might uncontrollably overuse and monopolize certain system resources.
5. Enhance security by scheduling and automating operating system and database patching to occur during pre-determined maintenance windows, ensuring all EDB Postgres AI databases are up-to-date. Furthermore, bolster security protocols by implementing access restrictions to databases.

We are excited by this week’s announcement and can’t wait to see the innovation it helps our joint customers unleash. Learn more about our partnership with Nutanix here.