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In the third and final part of this series (viewable on-demand), EDB’s Performance Engineering and Architecture Team VP, Vibhor Kumar and Solutions Architecture VP, Gianni Ciolli present real-life migration success stories, demonstrating how three different EDB customers successfully migrated from Oracle to Postgres.

When we surveyed our customers in 2020 and asked them what they saw as obstacles when migrating from Oracle to Postgres, cost was their smallest concern, followed by migrating the database definitions, migrating the stored procedures and moving from proprietary drivers to Postgres open source drivers. Their largest concern? Migrating the data.

Developers surveyed by Stack Overflow voted Postgres the most loved database, overtaking Redis, which held this spot for the last five years. (Oracle is third from the bottom on the list. So, developers really prefer Postgres—Oracle, maybe not so much.)

The DBMS landscape is experiencing seismic changes right beneath our feet, innovators and market leaders across industries are taking notice. As of 2021, open source database licenses outpace commercial database licenses and this trend shows no signs of slowing.

Your teams know your business, and there’s no substitute for their hands-on, lived-in insight. Just the same, self-support can’t compete with the hands-on, lived-in insight of those who know Postgres best—and will be there when you need them.

While freedom is critical and valuable, forgoing all database assistance in pursuit of it can prove to be a grave error. In fact, enterprise database support is often the best way to ensure that you maintain the freedom to fully control your own data.

With exorbitant pricing and restrictive licensing, Oracle databases are becoming less and less popular among businesses invested in innovation and infrastructure modernization.

“Unlocking Data Freedom: How Open Source Contributes to Mission Success” brought together EDB’s CTO for North America Public Sector Jeremy Wilson and FEC Technical Lead Laura Beaufort to discuss the ways they believe government agencies can take advantage of open source technology to embrace modern IT strategies.

Are businesses truly getting the best possible performance out of their Postgres? And, at the end of the day, what does good performance truly mean? EDB has the answers in our latest Ask the Expert webinar series.

As Bruce Momjian shared, it’s important to help enterprises better understand the Postgres upgrade process, how to do it more efficiently and how we can potentially improve the upgrade process going forward.

While Oracle has long been considered the gold standard for proprietary databases, its limitations have only become more apparent as businesses prioritize infrastructure modernization initiatives.

In a presentation entitled “Idle in Transaction,” EDB Solutions Architect Boriss Mejias discussed what it means to have multiple idle sessions in Postgres and, more specifically, what it means when a session is “idle in transaction.”

Recently, EDB participated in a webinar entitled “Control Costs and Modernize Federal Databases,” hosted by Carahsoft and also featuring Trilogy Innovations.

For those who could not attend Postgres Vision 2022, we are recapping some of the favorite presentations and roundtables, starting with EDB CEO Ed Boyajian’s opening keynote!

Excessive downtime diminishes your users’ and customers’ trust in your brand. It leaves them feeling underserved and overstressed. Not only does downtime make it harder to attract new customers, but—more severely—it drives existing customers away.

Despite its reputation as one of the top commercial databases on the market, Enterprises are migrating off of Oracle in favor of open source. In fact, open source licenses now outpace legacy proprietary database licenses, and understandably so.

Over the last two days, EDB was thrilled to host thousands of attendees at Postgres Vision 2022. While we were all virtual for another year, the excitement and passion for Postgres and its future was palpable among both presenters and participants.

EDB was proud to participate in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022! As the flagship gathering of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), this conference highlights technologists and innovators leading the open source and cloud native movements.  

From June 14th to June 15th, EDB’s annual Postgres Vision conference will bring together Postgres luminaries and experts to host a wide variety of virtual sessions discussing the latest innovations surrounding Postgres database.

EDB recently hosted a webinar entitled “Why Postgres is Becoming the Standard in Financial Services.” We wanted to explore the reasons for this trend, why they matter to you and what you can do to take advantage of this sea change.