I have started with databases quite early on in my career. RMS by Datapoint… was it really a database? Well, at least sort of. It held data in a central storage, but it was a typical serial “database”. Interestingly enough, some of this stuff is maintained up to today. (Talk about longevity!)

Continuing this short series of blog posts on some of my drivers for moving to Postgres from Oracle. Please read Part I of the series if you have not done so. It discussed the topics “History”, “More recently” and “The switch to Postgres”.

This is the final episode of this short series of blog posts on some of my drivers for moving to Postgres from Oracle. Please do read Part I and Part II of the series if you have not done so. It discussed the topics “History”, “More recently”, “The switch to Postgres”, “Realization”, “Pricing”, “Support” and “Extensibility”.

Distributed databases are coming. They will be here in multiple forms. For PostgreSQL, this is nothing new. We have seen technology fork from PostgreSQL in different shapes and sizes, only to be overtaken by the original in the end. This is just a new dawn on the horizon for PostgreSQL.

Today, PostgreSQL can confidently overcome database challenges with bi-directional replication. Learn how to achieve database extreme high availability by replacing Oracle RAC with EDB Postgres Distributed.

Back in the 1980s, the technology world experienced the first wave of open source software, thanks to platforms like Linux. Programmers, hobbyists and other open source proponents loved the nature of a software that could be constantly refined and tweaked with the help of a vibrant developer and user community. Companies, however, had difficulty imagining open source solutions powering mission...

The founder of what we, today, know as Postgres offers guidelines for the future of the cloud. Not only from a historical perspective, but very much forward-looking.

Among everything we do and talk about in our space, one thing is crystal clear—all of the technology and methodologies that exist serve basically one purpose: to support distinct businesses.

As Turing Award winner Dr. Michael Stonebraker said in his Postgres Build 2021 keynote: "You are going to move to the cloud." Not just bits and pieces, but hook, line, and sinker. Not just your applications, but your databases as well.

Michael Ralph Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database systems. EDB is extremely proud and grateful to have had Dr. Stonebraker speak at Postgres Build 2021.