This blog is co-authored by Jack Christie, Lizzy Nguyen, and Maeve Sullivan.
Winning companies understand that achieving success hinges on true sovereignty — operating fully on their own terms with end-to-end control over data and AI assets.
This quarter, we’re announcing new enhancements that give our customers even more control over transactional, analytical, and AI workloads, enabling them to achieve the level of sovereignty they require with greater financial predictability, operational stability, and freedom from vendor constraints.
Kyobo Book Centre, the largest bookstore chain in South Korea, is already experiencing these benefits. They needed a strategic escape from soaring compute costs on their 50TB cloud data warehouse, all while meeting strict data residency mandates. With EDB PG AI, they can now achieve necessary cost control and superior performance with total data sovereignty.
"We have been plagued by runaway costs for querying our 50TB cloud data warehouse. EDB Postgres AI with WarehousePG will give us a way to rein in costs with superior performance — and we can do it with total data sovereignty."
Read on, or scroll to the following sections, for more details on PG AI’s evolving capabilities that enable this across our platform:
- EDB PG AI for WarehousePG eliminates legacy warehouse limitations with up to 62% reduced costs and 63% greater scaling efficiency on high-concurrency workloads*
- EDB PG AI Hybrid Manager on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) offers more ways to scale Postgres with the optimal balance of ownership and management
- No-code tools streamline your everyday data and AI management
- EDB PG AI now supports Postgres v18, bringing the latest open source innovations to your foundational database platform
Break Free from Legacy Warehouse Limitations and Scale with Sovereignty
For decades, data warehouses have been the cornerstone of enterprise analytics, but they are some of the most challenging infrastructure to modernize without compromising sovereignty, and the inflexibility and costs of vendors that dominate the space have hindered innovation.
Reclaim Financial and Operational Control with WarehousePG
EDB PG AI for WarehousePG fundamentally solves these problems by enabling petabyte-scale analytics with full sovereignty and open source flexibility — even handling high-concurrency workloads with up to 63% greater scaling efficiency* than cloud data warehouses. With new enterprise features like real-time streaming support via Flow Server and advanced security and observability tooling, WarehousePG is even easier to adopt for businesses that need a high-performance, open source escape hatch from restrictive systems.
Instead of spiky, consumption-based billing, EDB PG AI for WarehousePG is priced per core, giving you predictable economics and reducing costs for high-concurrency workloads by up to 62%* compared to cloud data warehouses. Together, financial control and deployment flexibility offer complete data sovereignty across hybrid environments. Ultimately, WarehousePG secures your future success by providing a fast, low-risk migration path (modernization in hours, not months), and accelerating time-to-value for advanced analytics and AI—letting you innovate where data resides with native in-database machine learning, vector support, and lakehouse integrations.
Like Kyobo Book Centre, leading enterprises attest to EDB PG AI for WarehousePG’s ability to deliver the stability, performance, and control required for mission-critical analytics workloads:
Stability and Expert Support
MNTN, a connected TV ad-tech platform, required guaranteed operational uptime and responsive support for mission-critical performance marketing. WarehousePG provided the necessary petabyte-scale stability and 24x7 expert support. See their full story here.
"The performance is there, the stability is there, the support is responsive as they should be. I'm just happy that there's somebody there that can be with me in the middle of the night and I'm not, quite literally, hacking open source code trying to get the database recovered."
Modernization and Escape from Vendor Control
Euronext FX, a leading pan-European market infrastructure, eliminated vendor lock-in and technical debt from their existing Greenplum system with a seamless, zero-migration binary swap.
"We're excited to be working with EDB Postgres AI. Its support for Greenplum Workloads is helping us maintain control of where and how we deploy open source software."
Read more about EDB PG AI for WarehousePG in the dedicated blog.
Achieve Sovereignty for Your Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategy
Like we’ve seen with these customers, flexibility is a cornerstone of data sovereignty. EDB demonstrates our deep commitment to that principle by leveraging our deep Postgres and Kubernetes expertise to help you operate Postgres how and where it best suits your business.
Recently, Microsoft anchored CloudNativePG (CNPG)—the leading Kubernetes operator developed and donated to the open source community by EDB—as the gold standard for running production-ready Postgres on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). CNPG is the foundational engine that supports complex operations in the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure of EDB PG AI Hybrid Manager’s unified control plane, enabling configurations, extension integrations, and high availability capabilities.
Now, in the latest evolution of the EDB and Microsoft partnership, EDB PG AI Hybrid Manager is available on AKS. EDB PG AI for Microsoft Azure takes CNPG’s history of operational excellence and resilience and delivers it as a single, turnkey data and AI platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads.
Streamline Data and AI Management with No-Code Tools
In hybrid environments, usability is just as critical as sovereignty. For a more seamless experience, we’re introducing new visual, no-code tools that simplify the complex tasks you handle daily, helping you build without boundaries.
Visual Designer for AI Pipelines
Upon its release, EDB PG AI Factory revolutionized the AI data preparation process by enabling automated AI data pipelines with just five lines of code. We’re taking simplification a step further with a no-code AI Pipelines designer. Embedded directly in Hybrid Manager, this visual tool allows you to assemble, configure, and deploy complex AI data engineering pipelines for trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) knowledge bases.
This shift means pipeline creation is no longer a developer-only task, saving precious engineering time and significantly accelerating time-to-value for your AI initiatives.
Visual Configuration for Tiered Tables
Managing analytical and operational data efficiently is critical for both performance and cost control. EDB PG AI has supported this with Tiered Tables, which enable automated hot and cold storage optimization that can drive up to 5x disk space savings and 18x cost-efficiency. With a new GUI for configuring and observing Tiered Tables, it’s even simpler to achieve these improvements. The new interface allows data teams to optimize storage and performance down to the table level with minimal manual setup and maintenance—freeing them to focus on higher-value analytical work.
Proactive Security Recommendations
Operating within your own domain makes sovereignty possible; but foundational security and continuous elimination of vulnerabilities is required to maintain data integrity. EDB PG AI now delivers proactive security recommendations, checking your Postgres configurations against security best practices and offering actionable solutions to mitigate risks. Now, enterprises can catch and fix problems before they affect customers and continuously enhance data protection, without manual troubleshooting specialized database expertise.
Improved UI and Automation for Migrations
Enterprise migrations require moving hundreds of databases, but managing and tracking each of these projects can be an operational nightmare. Now, when you register a source database with EDB PG AI, it automatically creates a migration project for database schemas, accelerating assessment time and reducing the effort needed to plan and prep your migration. Complete hundreds of concurrent migrations at once and quickly view real-time migration progress on every table with row counts and migration rate, allowing you to track data transfers without needing to check logs or external tools.
Control and Flexibility At Every Layer
With Postgres at the core of everything we do, we know your foundational database must keep pace with the latest innovations. EDB remains a leading contributor to the PostgreSQL community, most recently supporting the release of PostgreSQL Version 18 (v18) in September. Now, EDB PG AI Database now supports Postgres v18 to ensure you can leverage the newest enhancements in Postgres with the security, availability, and support needed for critical apps.
EDB PG AI Database servers now integrate all Postgres v18 features, providing enterprise-hardened extensions for analytics and AI, OAuth support, and more so that customers can accelerate innovation with control. This extends to all our distributions, extensions, and tools, ensuring you have the robust toolkit you need to support both your core operations and new workloads with confidence.
Own Your Sovereign Strategy
It’s time to operationalize your data and AI. At EDB, we have doubled-down on our commitment to sovereignty and ingrained it into every approach within our platform. Thanks for reading about our newest features to help you gain full control over your data, operations, and technology stack. To learn more, explore EDB PG AI or contact us to get started.
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In case you missed them, here are some resources we are excited to share with you. Check them out!
Solving the Vector Database Dilemma - Read the whitepaper to learn how EDB PG AI’s unified platform enables 4x better performance and 68% faster AI deployment.
Architecting Freedom - Listen to this conversation between EDB’s Michael Gale and Gabriele Bartolini on Postgres, Kubernetes, and how to run anywhere with sovereignty.
Inside EDB Postgres AI - Watch the video of EDB’s Doug Flora, Vice President of Product GTM, on how EDB Postgres AI redefines enterprise data platforms.