But over the years, as open source software in general gained a foothold in the enterprise, adoption of open source databases like Postgres and MySQL began to grow. Lured by ANSI SQL compatibility and a growing set of enterprise features\u2013as well as the promise of much lower license fees\u2013open source databases eventually came to rival the proprietary databases in uptake, particularly for Postgres (since MySQL is controlled by Oracle).<\/p>\n
The cloud giants have also had a major role in Postgres\u2019 rebirth as a standard for relational databases. AWS<\/a>, Google Cloud<\/a>, and Microsoft Azure<\/a> all offer Postgres as a database service on their clouds. Many other vendors, including EDB, also offer Postgres as a cloud service.<\/p>\n Today, the Bedford, Massachusetts, company offers Postgres in a number of different ways.\u00a0 There is hosted and managed offering called Big Animal that\u2019s available on AWS and Microsoft Azure. It also offers various enterprise Postgres versions that customers can install on-prem, including EDB Postgres Distributed, EDB Postgres for Kubernetes, and EDB Postgres Advanced Server. And then there are self-managed subscription plans, such as EDB Community, EDB Standard, and EDB Enterprise. All told, EDB boasts more than 1,500 paying Postgres customers across its various database offerings, which was likely a big driver behind Bain Capital\u2019s Private Equity\u2019s 2022 decision to acquire a majority share from its previous majority owner, Great Hills Partners.<\/p>\n But commercial success isn\u2019t the only goal for EDB, as the company boasts the largest number of Postgres contributors of any company. Nine of the roughly four dozen contributors listed on the Postgresql.org<\/a>\u00a0community website are EDB employees, more than other companies, including AWS and Microsoft.<\/p>\n These Postgres contributors oversaw the recent launch of Postgres version 16, which brings a number of new features, such as enhancements to analytics queries, data replications, the vacuum process, and sharding.<\/p>\n Datanami<\/em> recently reached out to EDB\u2019s Chief Product Engineering Officer, Jozef de Vries, to hear what the company and the Postgres community have in store for the popular database.<\/p>\n \u201cPostgres stands out for its exceptional versatility in handling diverse transactional use cases, from time series to graph databases,\u201d de Vries says. \u201cEDB is committed to further enhancing this adaptability, focusing on integrating horizontally-scalable solutions like Postgres Distributed to meet evolving application requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.datanami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EDB_logo-300x134.png\"){kind=logo}
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