EnterpriseDB is a privately held company that provides enterprise class support for PostgreSQL through its product Postgres Plus Standard Server, which is PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

 with extra bundled modules. The company also offers Postgres Plus Advanced Server, which adds compatibility software to simplify application migration from other databases.

History

EnterpriseDB was founded in 2004 by Denis Lussier and Andy Astor with the goal of disrupting the database oligopoly with an equally capable product based on open source principles and development that offered dramatic cost savings. The company chose PostgreSQL as its technology foundation because PostgreSQL was proven by over 20 years of large-scale commercial deployments, its thriving developer community, and its reputation for being the strongest open source database available. EnterpriseDB is presently headquartered in Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 and has other offices in New Jersey, Europe, and Asia. Ed Boyajian is the CEO.

Products

EnterpriseDB offers two distributions based on PostgreSQL that have additional features and commercial support. These distributions are available for free download and are supported on several different platforms, including Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, and Solaris

Solaris Operating System

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It superseded their earlier SunOS in 1993. Oracle Solaris, as it is now known, has been owned by Oracle Corporation since Oracle's acquisition of Sun in January 2010....

. They include connectors for the most common programming languages and environments, including: JDBC, ODBC, .NET

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

, ESQL / C++

C++

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, Perl

Perl

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, Python

Python (programming language)

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, PHP

PHP

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.

• Distributions and adaptations:
  • PostgreSQL
    PostgreSQL
    PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
    
    - the bits developed by the Postgres community
  • Postgres Plus Standard Server - all the features of PostgreSQL plus additional QA testing, integrated components, tuning and one-click install
  • Postgres Plus Advanced Server - all the features of Postgres Standard Server plus Oracle compatibility, scalability features, and DBA and developer tools [it can run Oracle
    Oracle Corporation
    Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
    
     applications written for Oracle database
    Oracle database
    The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
    
    s by revising the core of PostgreSQL to recognize Oracle's PL/SQL
    PL/SQL
    PL/SQL is Oracle Corporation's procedural extension language for SQL and the Oracle relational database...
    
    as well as handle data replication to and from Oracle]
• Programs developed by EnterpriseDB:
  • StackBuilder Plus
  • xDB Replication Server

EnterpriseDB also offers services and support options for Postgres, including remote DBA services, tuning, developer support, DBA certification and training.

External links

• EnterpriseDB official website