20 years ago this year, the original founders of EDB made two bets; one that more and more people would want to use Postgres, and another that more and more people would want to stop using Oracle.

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Let’s start by reviewing some of the leading knocks against MySQL: MySQL 4 and any version of MySQL over the MyISAM storage engine are missing some basic SQL standard transactional capability. They ...

PostgreSQL continues to improve in ways that meet the needs of even the most complex, mission-critical use cases. It also presents certain challenges. The database market continues to be splintered ...

EnterpriseDB has created the products and an ecosystem of services and support to enable global enterprises to deploy open source software in the data center using Postgres to power their most ...

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Get up and running—and avoid the setup pitfalls—with this enterprise-class, open-source database available for all major platforms. For years now, PostgreSQL has been one of the best-kept secrets of ...

One of the most anticipated new features in PostgreSQL 17 is native support for incremental backups. Previously, you had to use third-party programs for this; now, it's baked into the server. This ...

Anyone looking at the history of the open-source relational database management system Postgres, which dates back to the 1970s with Ingres, would expect an outdated technology, no longer in use today.

Neon, a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from Khosla ...