White Papers and eBooks

5 Key Decisions to Make When Moving Your Oracle Workloads to the Cloud

If you have your eye on moving your Oracle databases to the cloud, you have a lot of choices to make and options to consider. We’ve outlined five key decision points to help you navigate your choices and enable your success.
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A Comparison of the EDB Postgres™ Platform to Self-Supported PostgreSQL

Open source databases are becoming a preferred option for organizations seeking high performance, lower cost alternatives to legacy databases, and PostgreSQL is an increasingly favored choice. However, to ensure high availability at scale, additional enterprise tools and capabilities for backup...

6 Things Database Administrators Should Know About GDPR

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect the way your organization collects and processes customer data in Europe. The GDPR regulation is comprised of 99 articles, and this EDB Tech Guide will focus on six specific articles that are relevant to most DBAs. We'll...

Gartner 2017 OPDBMS Magic Quadrant

The number of vendors recognized by Gartner in the annual OPDBMS Magic Quadrant has decreased nearly 65% since 2015, dropping from 31 to only 11 in 2017. The database industry has consolidated yet EDB continues to support a growing part of the market. EDB offers customers greater flexibility...

Infographic: EDB Postgres Advanced Server - Advantages for Oracle Users

EDB Postgres Advanced Server is based on PostgreSQL, and includes compatibility with Oracle, designed to mitigate technical and integration risks and diminish potential skill gaps. This compatibility enables organizations with Oracle skills to get to a delivered solution built on EDB Postgres more quickly than other DBMS alternatives.

Infographic: The Economic and Business Advantages of EDB Postgres Database Solutions

Download this Infographic to view an informative executive summary of the findings of the IDC whitepaper - The Economic and Business Advantages of EnterpriseDB Postgres Database Solutions. Then ...

The Digital Race Is On

In this eBook, The Digital Race Is On, EnterpriseDB explores how enterprises adapt to digitalization. Learn how to choose the right digital platform to achieve digital leadership, how to bridge existing IT with digital technology, and what challenges you will encounter. Click here to read the...

The Economic and Business Advantages of EDB Postgres Database Solutions

Read the IDC whitepaper, sponsored by EDB - The Economic and Business Advantages of EnterpriseDB Postgres Database Solutions, and learn how IDC’s study determined that the three-year return on investment (ROI) for the EDB Postgres platform is 168%. In addition, the...

EDB Postgres Welcomes MySQL Users

Postgres’ long-term native support for ACID compliance, Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC), data and referential integrity, server side programs (triggers and stored procedures), and fine-grained access controls are much more mature and stable than MySQL, which only has started implementing...

Forrester: Relational Databases are Evolving to Support New Data Capabilities, conducted by Forrester Consulting

Relational databases have evolved to support broader data management demands. This examination shows how they are solving common problems.

A Business Practices Comparison of EDB PostgresTM and Oracle®

Ever wonder what it would be like to do business with a database vendor with your interests in mind? Discover the differences between doing business with Oracle and EnterpriseDB. EDB's win-win approach to our business partnerships are evident in our pricing, renewal policies, virtual licensing...

Technical Comparison of EDB Postgres Enterprise and Oracle Enterprise

If you've played with the idea of building a new database with EDB Postgres Enterprise but have avoided doing so because you are not sure if it has the features you need or are accustomed to using in Oracle, then wait no longer. This eBook compares in depth the capabilities in both Oracle...

Security Best Practices for Postgres

This white paper presents a framework and a series of recommendations to secure and protect a Postgres database. We discuss a layered security model that addresses physical security, network security, host access control, database access management, and data security. Most of the recommendations...

Postgres Architectures for Enhanced Availability and Manageability

This technical white paper provides a systematic overview of the principal Postgres clustering types that EnterpriseDB® (EDB™) recommends to help a customer achieve enhanced availability and manageability. We will consider shared-disk clusters, streaming replication clusters, logical replication...

Avoiding High Oracle DBMS Costs with EDB Postgres

Although the most sensitive layer of the infrastructure stack, the database layer has the potential for the greatest cost savings and strategic advantages. For example, one Oracle license alone lists at $47,500 per processor core (without any add-on features) with annual operating expenses equal...

Which Postgres is Right for Me?

This paper examines four enterprise adoption strategies (and associated risk factors) for Postgres, and provides guidance to help readers develop an informed adoption playbook. The four strategies are analyzed for PROs and CONs across seven software adoption risk factors: Capabilities, Roadmap,...