EnterpriseDB (EDB), the innovator accelerating Postgres in enterprises, is announcing global availability for EDB Tools and Extensions Release for PostgreSQL 15 (EDB PG 15), building upon EDB’s comprehensive collection of extensions and tools for application development with the latest version of Postgres.
Emphasizing the need for EDB to navigate legacy systems’ transitions to Postgres, Jozef de Vries, SVP of product development at EDB, remarked that, “Postgres has been around for almost 30 years; there's a lot of capability that's been built into it.”
And when the aforementioned is compounded with potentially risks associated in misconfiguring databases, enterprises are faced with a costly, complicated problem. EDB, however, seeks to bridge the gap between Postgres, enterprises, and their database. As Postgres unveils its latest iteration, EDB’s tools and capability enhancements keep up in parallel.
EDB’s comprehensive tools and capability improvements serve to alleviate database burdens and leverage Postgres’ wide array of abilities.
“Every application that somebody interacts with is creating data or writing data, looking up data—and all that data gets stored in a database. And while that itself sounds simple, though, the management of those database environments gets very complex and very difficult,” said de Vries. “So, we put a lot of investments in the tools that our customers—the DBAs, the app devs, and the DevOps engineers—need to use and can benefit from maintaining and managing a more reliable database system.”
These ever-expanding tools have culminated to form EDB PG 15, the latest version of the database, which offers a plethora of capabilities to improve enterprises’ Postgres experiences.
EDB PG 15 supports any deployment environment; on-premises, cloud, self-managed, fully-managed with EDB BigAnimal, and Kubernetes are all supported in EDB’s latest release. The vendor additionally highlighted three new functions in EDB PG 15: EDB Advanced Storage Pack, EDB Postgres Tuner, and EDB LDAP Sync.
EDB Advanced Storage Pack increases access speed to clustered data, as well as increases performance and scalability for foreign key relationships.
de Vries explained that the “advanced storage pack is just the beginning of a much bigger initiative we're going to be pursuing in the coming months and quarters around providing capabilities that enhance the performance of the database for various types of workloads.”
The EDB Postgres Tuner automates years of EDP Postgres tuning expertise to improve overall performance. By integrating automation with this expertise, EDB PG 15 is able to monitor the performance of the database in real-time and will dynamically change and set permeates based on best practice configurations and settings for running an optimal database.
Finally, the EDB LDAP Sync eliminates user management in Database and LDAP to streamline LDAP support for improved security. This feature highlights the importance of catering to an enterprise's needs in order to more effectively secure the management of a database environment.
EDB PG 15 precedes the next major release for EDB, which is to be expected in Q1 of 2023. Transparent Data Encryption, or TDE, is the most anticipated security feature included in the upcoming release, allowing data encryption at the database level to give more control to DBAs and safeguard against accidental exposure and unauthorized access.
For more information about EDB PG 15 and its upcoming release, please visit https://www.enterprisedb.com/.