For reasons ranging from open source flexibility, avoidance of vendor lock-in, and reduced total cost of ownership, Postgres is increasingly the database of choice to meet enterprise demands.
While many of you are comfortable running Postgres to support Tier 2 and 3 applications, your most-critical workloads have more stringent criteria. For Tier 1 workloads, that means there are greater demands for enterprise-grade Postgres solutions that deliver:
- Enhanced safeguards that satisfy SecOps requirements, provide compliance readiness, and meet the most stringent organizational security questionnaires
- Continuous high availability for geo-distributed applications
- Wide-ranging Postgres deployment options, with flexible architecture support
- Highly skilled Postgres subject matter expertise to provide follow-the-sun support needed for maximized database performance
The EDB Postgres® AI unified platform answers these enterprise-grade performance demands by providing hardened security, five 9’s availability, and compliance readiness to satisfy enterprise requirements for Tier 1 workloads. When it comes to enterprise-grade support, our Postgres subject matter experts provide comprehensive, 24x7x365 coverage and break-fix services to maximize Postgres database performance.
For today’s enterprises, EDB Postgres AI elevates value by providing the first intelligent data platform for transactional, analytics, and new AI workloads.
Let’s take a closer look at EDB’s Enterprise-Grade Postgres differentiators.
Addressing enterprise-grade security concerns
With security a top priority when it comes to software purchases, out-of-the-box PostgreSQL solutions often lack data encryption, compliance readiness, and access management and other safeguards required for enterprise-grade Postgres deployments.
Prioritizing Postgres security has made EDB a trusted partner for enterprises doing business in sensitive industries where operational safeguards are a necessity. EDB Postgres AI offers features that satisfy Security Auditor requirements and provide security teams with peace of mind, including providing Transparent Data Encryption functionality usually normally available only on commercial databases, as well as:
- Privilege analysis that enables customers to lock down their database by safely removing excessive privileges from users to avoid intentional and/or unintentional data access and modification
- Database auditing that allows DBAs, auditors, and operators to track and analyze database activities in support of complex auditing requirements.
- Access management controls
- Backup and recovery options
- Familiar data protection techniques as part of our Oracle Compatibility layer
Delivering compliance readiness
EDB Postgres AI supports legacy workloads and new application requirements, while meeting stringent security requirements, such as:
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
- European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- SOC 2 (System and Organizational Controls 2)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- FIPS 140-2
In addition to our enterprise-grade Postgres security features, EDB has further elevated our organizational security and ethical data handling to further safeguard customer data. The EDB Trust Center, Powered by SafeBase, highlights our commitment to embedding data privacy and security in every part of our business. With this Trust Center hub, customers and prospects can click through a shrink-wrap EDB Non-Disclosure agreement to access provide security information, including our organizational Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Report on Compliance (ROC), SOC 2 Type 2 Reports, Penetration Test reports for major offerings or customer-facing assets, and more.
This EDB commitment to product and operational security satisfies the requirements of our healthcare, telecommunications, government, and banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) customers.
Delivering geo-distributed, extreme high availability
EDB Postgres AI offers the broadest flexibility to run Postgres in the manner to best serve your most-demanding application requirements, including in distributed clusters with the highest availability (99.999% uptime) across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments.
By seamlessly deploying EDB Postgres® Distributed on our Trusted Postgres Architect orchestration tool, virtual machines, or our managed Postgres services, you can implement controls in multi-region clusters to replicate data selectively where necessary, easing compliance with regulations.
In bringing EDB extreme high availability to Kubernetes, EDB Postgres Distributed for Kubernetes (PGD4K) provides a Kubernetes operator that simplifies PGD cluster creation and management inside Kubernetes. By extending the functionality provided by open source CloudNativePG Kubernetes Operator from EDB, the PGD4K Operator brings best-in-class high availability to Kubernetes clusters by providing multi-master replication and geo-sharding of data.
Running EDB Postgres Distributed on our EDB Postgres AI Cloud Service enables you to run active/active geo-distributed clusters and provide up to 99.995% high availability in AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure infrastructures, providing throughput efficiency for “apps that can’t go down.”
EDB Postgres AI lets you run enterprise-grade Postgres on any cloud, from edge to core. Get hardened security, support, and compliance to help you standardize Postgres across your enterprise.
Providing flexible deployment options and Day 2 readiness
The EDB Postgres AI flexible architecture handles diverse data types and supports the following enterprise-grade deployment models:
- Fully managed cloud services (Amazon Web Services, Azure, GCP), with EDB Postgres AI Cloud Service delivering up to 99.995% uptime with distributed Postgres clusters, as well as self-managed public cloud
- Using an enterprise-grade Kubernetes operator to support orchestrated and microservices-based architectures
- On-premises options—physical servers, VMs, Kubernetes / Containers, private cloud
But we know deployment represents Day 1 of the journey, and other Postgres solutions can leave enterprise customers holding a “box of tools” when it comes to Day 2 integration and delivery activities. In providing Day 2 readiness that our customers need for enterprise-grade Postgres, EDB Postgres AI offers features like:
- Trusted Postgres Architect orchestration that provides simple, repeatable, and robust deployment and configuration of trusted high availability architectures
- Postgres Enterprise Manager, which manages, monitors, and optimizes PostgreSQL and our EDB Postgres Advanced Server
- An EDB Wait States tool for analyzing performance and tuning by identifying wait events
- EDB Query Advisor, which provides DBAs with a tool for maximizing query performance
- Unifying OLTP and NoSQL data processing
- Handling diverse data types for geospatial analysis
- AI vector storage and search
- EDB Postgres Workload Reports that provide advanced database performance analysis and improve diagnosis and troubleshooting when issues occur
Elevating enterprise-grade value with the unified EDB Postgres AI platform
The unified EDB Postgres AI platform expands our competencies by providing insights into transactional, analytical, and AI workloads, all without leaving the Postgres ecosystem and unnecessarily using separate systems to extract those insights.
The EDB Postgres AI platform extends enterprise-grade Postgres with native AI vector processing, an analytics Lakehouse, and a unified platform for observability and hybrid data management. The EDB Postgres AI platform enables developers to build AI and analytics applications seamlessly integrated with their enterprise's structured, unstructured and vector data assets—all on our highly scalable, secure, enterprise-grade data platform.
You can see EDB Postgres AI in action today. Register within seconds, and you’ll get access to a full-featured, enterprise-grade Postgres experience, including the security, support, compliance, high availability, and platform services we’ve described here.