View From the Top by Phillip Merrick CEO
Applications today must be always on, always available, and always responsive, regardless of where a user is located. The hardest part of meeting these challenges is at the database layer, with databases typically residing at justone location or region within the global network.
pgEdge addresses these challenges by making Postgres, the world’s most popular open source database, fully distributed. This means multiple copies of the database can be located closer to users at different geographic locations around the global network, dramatically reducing latency and application response times. Having multiple replicated database nodes across the network ensures high levels of availability, since when a node fails or is not reachable, traffic automatically routes to the nearest still available node.
For example, a leading investment management firm implemented a highly available, distributed Postgres solution with logical replication and zero downtime capabilities to maintain uninterrupted trading and eliminate single points of failure. With pgEdge, they ensure continuous performance, resilience, and operational flexibility. A SaaS AI company turned to pgEdge Cloud to replace their cloud provider’s tool with a three-node cluster spanning multiple geographies to increase availability, significantly reduce latency, and simplify database management.
pgEdge Distributed Postgres is uniquely both open—with source code available—and fully based on Postgres. It is offered as a fully managed service (pgEdge Cloud), or as self-hosted and self-managed software, or deployable through containers (pgEdge Platform). Key features include multi-master synchronous logical replication, configurable conflict resolution and conflict avoidance, latency-based routing, automatic DDL propagation, and support for many popular PostgreSQL extensions.
For more information visit www.pgedge.com or get started free at www.pgedge.com/get-started.
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