EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB Corporation

Type	Private
Industry	Software & Database
Founded	March 2004[1]
Headquarters	Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Key people	Ed Boyajian, CEO Paul Blondin, CFO Gerry Boucher, SVP, Services Mike Huseman, SVP, Sales, Business Development Marc Linster, Ph.D., SVP, Product Development Keith Alsheimer, CMO Lenley Hensarling, SVP, Strategy and Product Management
Products	Software subscriptions based on PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server, both of which include support, upgrades and tools for database management, High Availability, integration, and migration. RDBMS
Website	www.enterprisedb.com

EnterpriseDB (EDB), a privately held company based in Massachusetts, provides software and services based on the open-source database PostgreSQL. EDB develops and integrates performance, security, and manageability enhancements into PostgreSQL to support enterprise-class workloads for its database, EDB Postgres Advanced Server. EDB has also developed database compatibility for Oracle to facilitate the migration of workloads from Oracle to EDB Postgres and to support the operation of many Oracle workloads on EDB Postgres.^[2]

EnterpriseDB sells subscriptions to its EDB Postgres Platform with the option of EDB Postgres Advanced Server or PostgreSQL as the database. The platform subscriptions include tool suites, upgrades, support, and maintenance.

Gartner positioned EnterpriseDB in the Leaders Quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems ^[3] in October 2014 and again in September 2015.^[4] EnterpriseDB was recognized in the Challengers Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems in October 2016.^[5]

History

EDB was founded in 2004. The growing acceptance of open source software created a market opportunity and the company wanted to challenge the database oligarchy with a standards based product that was compatible with other vendor solutions. EnterpriseDB sought to develop an open source-based, enterprise-class relational database to compete with established vendors at an open source price point.

The company chose PostgreSQL as its technology foundation because of PostgreSQL's record of over 20 years of large-scale commercial deployments, its thriving developer community, and its reputation as the most robust open-source database available.

EDB introduced its prototype database, EnterpriseDB 2005, in 2005. It was named Best Database Solution at LinuxWorld that year, beating solutions from Oracle, MySQL, and IBM.^[6] EDB renamed the database EnterpriseDB Advanced Server with its March 2006 release. The database was renamed Postgres Plus Advanced Server in March 2008.^[7] In April 2016, with the introduction of the EDB Postgres Platform, EDB’s fully integrated next-generation data management platform, the database was renamed to EDB Postgres Advanced Server.^[8]

Products

The EDB Postgres Platform is available in three subscriptions: (i) EDB Postgres Enterprise, (ii) EDB Postgres Standard, and (iii) EDB Postgres Developer. The EDB Postgres Enterprise subscription includes the EDB Postgres Advanced Server database and database compatibility with Oracle. EDB Postgres Standard includes the PostgreSQL database.

All three subscriptions include comprehensive management, integration, migration tool suites, global support and upgrades, and are deployable across a wide range of on-premise and cloud configurations. The tool suites are:

• The Management Suite, which includes tools for monitoring, optimizing, tuning, and managing large database deployments; High Availability; backup and recovery architectures.
• The Integration Suite, which features capabilities for federated database systems and integration with applications from other database management solutions. The Integration Suite includes the EDB Postgres Replication Server and a collection of EDB Postgres Data Adapters, which are based on the Foreign Data Wrapper functionality in PostgreSQL. The suite includes Data Adapters for Hadoop and MongoDB.^[9]
• The Migration Suite includes toolkits that enable organizations to assess applications that are best candidates for migration to EDB Postgres and tools for actual migrations.

EDB Postgres Plus Cloud Database

EnterpriseDB offers two editions of a cloud database. These are the EDB Postgres Plus Cloud Database Advanced, which includes the EDB Postgres Advanced Server database, and EDB Postgres Plus Cloud Database Basic, which includes the PostgreSQL database. The Management Console in the cloud products provision databases in single instances, high availability clusters, or development sandboxes for Database-as-a-Service environments.

Services

In addition to custom consulting engagements, EDB provides the following packaged services:

Postgres Architecture Services include the Enterprise Architecture Setup service, which assists organizations in setting up their EDB Postgres environments, and the Architectural Health Check, a three-day audit of the Postgres environment with recommendations for improving performance.

Migration Assessment consists of an analysis of an Oracle database architecture, configuration, and application usage to rate the complexity of migrations across five key compatibility categories.

RemoteDBA provides organizations with round-the-clock global database monitoring and regular database maintenance at three different levels of service to meet a spectrum of needs.

EDB Technical Account Manager is a designated Postgres resource that works closely with an organization’s IT organization to provide guidance on using Postgres.

Training and Certification

EDB provides training from Postgres experts in multiple formats: live, virtual online; on-demand online courses; and, live, in-classroom.

EDB provides two levels of certification for PostgreSQL and for EDB Postgres Advanced Server; they are Associate and Professional.

References

External links

• Official website