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Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: Key Differences and Best Use Cases In today’s data-driven world, managing your organization’s data is paramount. By comparing these two systems, we can enable you to make an informed decision about which is best for your organizational needs and structure.

Oracle or PostgreSQL? 💾 Both are powerful, but built for different needs. Oracle offers enterprise-scale tools, while PostgreSQL delivers open source flexibility and SQL compliance. Learn how to choose the right fit for your data ecosystem with EDB’s comparison: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/oracle-...

Hyderabad PostgreSQL group – Connect, Share, Innovate: Your PostgreSQL Community in Hyderabad This Time, It’s Bigger! Join us for a 2-day PostgreSQL conference — Hyderabad Postgres Days 2025 at JNTU, Hyderabad on August 21–22!

Hosted by the Hyderabad PostgreSQL User Group, Postgres Days Hyd 2025 is where the city’s thriving tech community comes together to celebrate, learn, and grow with PostgreSQL. EDBs Vibhor Kumar will deliver the keynote "From Command Lines to Strategy Rooms: Powered by PostgreSQL" pghyd.in

EDB at PGConf Brazil 2025: First Look at Our Global Team’s Talks and Workshops Preview EDB’s talks and workshops at PGConf Brazil 2025, from Postgres internals to AI, high availability, performance, and more.

PGConf Brazil is taking place September 3 - 5, in João Pessoa 📍

EDB is proud to be back as a Gold sponsor, and global colleagues are bringing a total of 13 sessions on topics like database internals to AI, High Availability, and performance tuning: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/edb-pgc...

We're excited to have Bruce Momjian, Vice President, Postgres Evangelist for @edbpostgres.bsky.social, presenting "Databases in the AI Trenches" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/dat...

PGDay Lowlands 2025 A 1-day PostgreSQL community conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

We’re excited to be Partner-level sponsors of PGDay Lowlands, happening this year at the Rotterdam Zoo 🐘 We’re also proud to have secured 3 speaking slots:

🤝 Bruce Momjian – Beyond Joins & Indexes
📦 Jonathan Battiato – Debate: Data on Kubernetes
🤖 Gianni Ciolli – Debate: Autotuning

2025.pgday.nl

Apache Iceberg™ Europe Community Meetup - September 2025 Edition · Luma Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup - live in London! Join us for the very first Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup in London! Our event is hosted in Paddington Central,…

The night before, we’re also sponsoring the very first Apache Iceberg™ Europe Meetup at Paddington Central. Miles Richardson will be speaking about the WarehousePG project: lu.ma/u042b0vw

PGDay UK 2025 A 1-day PostgreSQL community conference in London, UK.

PGDay UK returns on September 9, and we’re proud to be a Partner-level sponsor. Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Evangelist at EDB, will take the stage with his talk “Future Postgres Challenges.” Devrim Gunduz, Bilge Ince, and Floor Drees support the event as volunteers: 2025.pgday.uk

CloudNativePG 1.27.0 Released! The CloudNativePG community is excited to announce version 1.27.0, featuring powerful new capabilities for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes.

🚀 We've released CloudNativePG 1.27.0 and we recommend upgrading to benefit from the latest features, enhancements, and long-term stability: cloudnative-pg.io/releases/clo...

Enjoy:
✨ Dynamic loading of PostgreSQL extensions
🔁 Logical decoding slot synchronization
🔒 Primary Isolation Check

PGDay Napoli 2025 The PostgreSQL conference in Napoli.

We'll present 3 lightning talks at the September 25 @pgdayna.org:
🥰 Floor Drees - Meet the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee
📦 Jonathan Battiato - Benchmarking PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
👨‍🍳 Jonathan Gonzalez - Baking Better Postgres Images with Docker Bake & CloudNativePG
2025.pgdaynapoli.org

From good to great: improving tech talks with team rehearsals For the past three months, we've been running internal talk rehearsals at EDB to help speakers polish their presentations before community and industry events—and the feedback has been overwhelmingly…

We've been running talk rehearsals at EDB—and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive! Rehearsals provide a supportive space for catching typos, improving structure, and getting constructive input from peers, for seasoned speakers and first-timers alike:

EDB Engineering Newsletter #9 Welcome to the 9th edition of the EDB Engineering, where we share happenings in the data world that the team has enjoyed discussing, as well as other news about what the EDB Engineering team is up to.

EDB Engineering Newsletter #9 is now out!

This time we're featuring posts on Postgres, distributed systems, benchmarking, AI, and performance engineering from Gunnar Morling, Antithesis/Jepsen, Justin Jaffray, Anthropic, Brendan Gregg, Simon Willison and more: edbeng.substack.com/p/edb-engine...

Stack traces for Postgres errors with backtrace_functions If Postgres crashes you can get a stack trace with gdb. But how do you debug errors that don't crash Postgres?

If Postgres crashes you can get a stack trace with gdb. But how do you debug errors that don't crash Postgres? EDB Staff Engineer @eatonphil.bsky.social grabbed the Postgres 17 source and built it with debug symbols. Follow along:

CUBE365 Virtual Events Virtual Events with Real Results

Data lakes are everywhere, but most enterprises still struggle to get them AI-ready. August 26, at the Supermicro Open Storage Summit ’25, experts from EDB, Supermicro, AMD, and MinIO show how data lakes and lakehouses are evolving to support real enterprise AI ▶️

July 26, EDB was proud to be a Platinum sponsor of Diva: Dive Into AI 2025, an inclusive, community-built AI conference. Our own Ayse Bilge Ince is part of the organizing team and she wrote about what Diva has come to mean for the AI community in Turkey and beyond: www.linkedin.com/pulse/after-...

Mark Wong and Jacob Champion at the PostgreSQL booth at FOSSY

Mark Wong at a speakers desk, next to a screen with a slide up that says "An Adventure in Data Modeling"

EDBs Jacob Champion & Mark Wong were at FOSSY last week. Mark gave a talk, telling the story of one company's journey refactoring its schema to use the EAV data model—despite its pitfalls as a relational anti-pattern—to make it work (temporarily) through on-the-fly transformations. Two quick snaps:

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India still has a few hours to go! We had some standout conversations today around @CloudNativePG.bsky.social, especially on the role of operator maturity in platform security, high availability, and disaster recovery 💪

📍 Find us at booth S2

The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results are in, and Postgres tops the charts—again—as the most used, most admired, and most desired database 👑

EDB is proud to be the #1 contributor.

Check out the full report: survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technol...

Apache Iceberg™ Europe Community Meetup - September 2025 Edition · Luma Apache Iceberg™ Meetup Europe - live in London! Join us for the very first Apache Iceberg™ Meetup Europe in London! Our event is hosted in Paddington Central,…

We're joining the very first Apache Iceberg™ Meetup Europe in London as a sponsor, alongside Microsoft and Vakamo.

Miles Richardson will be one of the speakers on the 8th of September. At EDB, Miles brings analytics to Postgres with the WarehousePG project ▶️ lu.ma/u042b0vw

What Bruce Momjian’s Travels Reveal About the Future of Postgres The stamped pages in Bruce Momjian’s passport trace a quiet revolution. In just the past few months, the longtime Postgres advocate has sat with students in Charlotte, database engineers in Shenzhen,…

🗺️ Postgres co-founder and community advocate supported in his work by EDB, Bruce Momjian has spent decades helping grow Postgres into a global movement.

His recent travels mark a shift: Postgres isn’t just spreading; it’s becoming foundational infrastructure ▶️ www.enterprisedb.com/blog/what-br...

What is OpenTelemetry and what can it do for me? AcknowledgementsTh

Staff SDE Peter Wilson explains why we monitor - if you'll excuse the pun - the development of the Open Telemetry project: native support in PostgreSQL could greatly reduce monitoring friction by providing a shared standard for observability across tools ▶️ www.enterprisedb.com/blog/what-op...

CloudNativePG 1.27.0 RC1 Released! The CloudNativePG community is excited to announce the first release candidate of CloudNativePG 1.27! This preview introduces features like the dynamic loading of PostgreSQL extensions, and the…

We've just published the first release candidate for CloudNativePG 1.27.0, some of the the highlights:
✨ Dynamic loading of PostgreSQL extensions
🔁 Logical decoding slot synchronization
🔒 Primary Isolation Check
cloudnative-pg.io/releases/clo...

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud: The Future of Cloud Computing Leverage private and public clouds for your multi-cloud databases with innovative hybrid solutions that will define the future of cloud computing.

We’re seeing more and more organisations ask the same question: "How do I keep Postgres consistent across private, public, and multi-cloud deployments without giving up control or performance?"

This blog explains how EDB is helping solve the challenge: www.enterprisedb.com/blog/hybrid-...

KSUG.AI Australia #47 - Sydney Meetup @AWS Sydney - 13 August 2025, Wed, Aug 13, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup Register now to attend! => https://konfhub.com/ksug-au-2025-08-13 We're excited to welcome you to the upcoming KSUG.AI Australia – Sydney Meetup — happening both in-person at Amazon and online via Zoom!

Join VP, Chief Architect at EDB, and @CloudNativePG.bsky.social maintainer Gabriele Bartolini, at the August 13 KSUGAI meetup in Sydney, where he will will talk about "The Past, Present, and Future of Postgres in Kubernetes" — at Amazon's offices and via Zoom: www.meetup.com/ksug-au/even...

KSUG.AI Singapore #39 Meetup @Red Hat on 28th August 2025, Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Register now to attend! => https://konfhub.com/ksug-sg-2025-08-28 and join Gabriele Bartolini's talk about will talk about "The Past, Present, and Future of Postgres in Kubernetes"

Join VP, Chief Architect at EDB, and @CloudNativePG.bsky.social maintainer Gabriele Bartolini at the KSUGAI Singapore meetup August 28 — happening both in-person at Red Hat office and online via Zoom: www.meetup.com/ksug-sg/even...

CloudNativePG 1.26.1 and 1.25.3 Released! The CloudNativePG community has released new updates for the 1.26 and 1.25 versions of the CloudNativePG operator.

We are excited to announce the release of CloudNativePG Operator versions 1.26.1 and 1.25.3, including critical bug fixes and stability enhancements to help ensure the continued reliability of your PostgreSQL clusters in production environments: cloudnative-pg.io/releases/clo...

Kubernetes Finally Solves Its Biggest Problem: Managing Databases Learn the operator pattern that makes PostgreSQL management seamless.

Kubernetes just cracked one of its toughest challenges: database management. @rotemtam.bsky.social and @edbpostgres.bsky.social's Gabriele Bartolini explain how the operator pattern makes handling PostgreSQL on K8s seamless and production-ready.

How Do We Test PGD The PostgreSQL Distributed (PGD) is a distributed database that provides high availability and scalability. The PGD team performs rigorous and extensive testing to deliver a robust, high-performance…

PostgreSQL Distributed (PGD) is a distributed database designed for scalability and HA. To ensure a robust and high-performance product, the team conducts rigorous testing. This blog details the testing practices, for readers interested in the QA process ▶️ www.enterprisedb.com/blog/how-do-...

PGD: Understanding Conflicts and their Resolution BackgroundUsers of

In a new post on the blog, EDBs Vaijayanti Bharadwaj aims to explore common types of conflicts with PGD, illustrate them with examples, and explain how they are typically detected and resolved using default mechanisms ▶️ www.enterprisedb.com/blog/pgd-und... #PostgreSQL

Streamline How Your Code Interacts with Postgres Are you using the most streamlined way to interact with Postgres from your application code?

Are we overcomplicating how our applications talk to #Postgres? In this new technical blog, EDB’s Manni Wood makes the case for a more streamlined approach—one that skips heavy ORMs and goes straight from SQL to clean, native data structures ▶️ www.enterprisedb.com/blog/streaml...

Schedule - PGDay Austria

Meet EDB at PGDay Austria this September:
🔹 Alvaro Herrera - What is an SLRU anyway?
🔹 Gabriele Quaresima - CloudNativePG 101
🔹 Boriss Mejias & Floor Drees have a role in the "Database Deathmatch" closing ceremony (which, upon reflection, sounds ominous...)