Open Source Databases Powering Apps and Business Critical Systems Today, an open source databases can compete effectively against leading proprietary database products for most enterprise workloads. And, enterprises large and small are adopting open source databases to power more of their applications and business critical systems. In fact, in Gartner’s "State of the Open-Source DBMS Market, 2018"...

A leading financial services institution in the Nordics faced a host of decisions for a major digital transformation initiative. With more than 10,000 employees working in over 20 countries to provide banking services to private and corporate customers, the company needed to respond quickly to customer requirements with new financial products.

Exploring Container Technology and Container Orchestration Today it is safe to say that containers and container orchestration have left the hype phase and are now a mainstream cloud-native technology. The container growth trends are compelling: According to a survey of 600+ IT decision-makers, conducted in mid-July 2018 by ClearPath Strategies for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, 30% of enterprises...

Infosys Finacle, a part of Infosys’ product subsidiary EdgeVerve Systems, today named EnterpriseDB their “Open Source DB Partner of the Year”. This recognition was received at Partner Meet 2019, the Infosys Finacle annual partner event, held in the city of Mysore in India's southwestern Karnataka state. The Finacle Core Banking Solution is a suite of integrated banking solutions used by banks...

The use cases of a highly available database may vary between a financial services organization or a telecommunications provider, but the desired result is the same: an incredibly reliable database that minimizes downtime. Organizations often strive for availability down to the decimal point as a percentage of uptime in a given year, such as four nines (99.99 percent availability). Every second of...

Join us for Postgres Vision, June 24-26 in Boston, MA, for a one-of-a-kind opportunity to dive deep into Postgres technology. We’ll kick off our conference on Monday, June 24th, with a full-day training class: Deploying EDB Postgres Containers with OpenShift and Docker. This unique training opportunity will take place at the conference venue. Date: June 24th, 2019 Time: 10:00am - 4:00pmET Location...

Facing tough competition, a leading Indonesian Bank wanted to roll-out a new Shariah Banking application to more than 50 branches and nearly 300 service offices in a cost effective way. Remaining on Oracle® would have been prohibitively expensive for this application due to the licensing cost.

This logging support was added since version 42.1.4.1 of the EnterpriseDB JDBC Driver, while previous versions use a custom mechanism to enable logging that it is replaced by the use of java.util.logging in current versions, the old mechanism is no longer available.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, sent U.S. states scrambling to build health insurance exchanges for individuals to purchase and manage new insurance plans. Working under time constraints, many states implemented systems based on technologies they already had in place.

Upcoming Events and Speaking Engagements The EDB team has a busy month ahead with an abundance of events and speaking engagements this March. We hope to see you out on the road and have a chance to talk to you about all things Postgres. March 18-21: See EDB at the Gartner Data & Analytics 2019 Conference First up is our trip to the Gartner Data & Analytics 2019 conference, from March 18-21 at the...