Continuing our blog series, Integrating PostgreSQL—which kicked off with this post covering Application Integration—we’ll now further explore PostgreSQL integration to help enterprises do more and go faster. This blog post will dive into our next key focus area within this landscape: Data Integration and Migration. Data Integration and Migration Successful PostgreSQL® implementations are fully...

Over the last decade, open source databases have won the hearts and minds of developers and database operators across the globe. When you double-click on the open source trends, you will clearly see that PostgreSQL has become the database of choice. The reasons are obvious: innovation, reliability, cost, and support of a wide range of platforms. A 2020 survey of EDB’s enterprise customers tells us...

ACI Worldwide is a global software company that provides mission-critical real-time payment solutions to corporations. Customers use the company’s proven, scalable, and secure solutions to process and manage digital payments, enable omni-commerce payments, present, and process bill payments, and manage fraud and risk. The Challenge As part of a multi-year modernization effort, ACI Worldwide sought...

In this blog post, we’ll analyze in more depth some relevant security aspects that EDB Postgres for Kubernetes implements at the “Container” level, the third layer of the 4C’s security model in Kubernetes—which I covered in my last blog. Such a layer also includes aspects that concern the security settings of the Kubernetes’ Container Runtime Interface. However, considering that they depend on the...

It's common for enterprise companies to make the transition from one technology to another—and that journey depends on several contributing factors. This blog post highlights how EDB customer BG Phoenics did just that and migrated their database infrastructure from DB2 to EDB. With the traditional DB2 RDBMS setup, their initial hurdles were tied to complex management of a growing database...

In this blog post, we will walk you through the concept of building a high availability architecture with Postgres, based on the presentation given by Mike Sijmons of Nibble IT at Postgres Build 2020. The session discussed the end-to-end workflow of setting up a high availability system—from requirements gathering to system design to tooling. Postgres Requirements Users generally expect to meet a...

PostgreSQL has become a top choice for enterprises looking to accelerate innovation and modernize their infrastructures. We recently spoke with one of our customers who’s doing just that. Ärztekammer Westfalen-Lippe ( AEKWL) is one of the 17 State Chambers of Physicians in Germany. We asked AEKWL CTO Ingo Schmitt to share some information about the organization, the team, and his journey with...

In light of the events of 2020 that have impacted every aspect of our lives - economic environment, labor market, personal situations, and business reality - digital transformation initiatives may seem like a luxury. However, those same events - and the need to continue to adapt (or attempt to adapt) - to such rapidly changing conditions indicate a greater need for digital transformation than...

2020 was unequivocally a year like no other for a number of reasons. At EDB, we saw PostgreSQL continue its steady growth in 2020, enabling enterprises to do more, faster. In this 2020 year-end wrap up video, we've included some of the top highlights that spurred continued success! Watch the video Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, business and IT persisted. And in this unprecedented global climate...

Postgres Build 2020, EDB’s first virtual conference for the European market, took place on December 8-9, and we welcomed 1300+ attendees and 35+ speakers from all around the world.