EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB is a company based in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States software manufacturers. The company offers complementary software and commercial support to the free object-relational database management system PostgreSQL and programs for migration from other databases to PostgreSQL. In particular, for the migration of Oracle database systems added compatibility tools are offered.
History
Andy Astor and Denis Lussier founded the company in 2004 with the aim to break the database oligopoly. They resolved, using equally powerful to lower open source software based on the costs for businesses by up to 90 %. They chose PostgreSQL because in this database management system, a 20-year development history has been incorporated with a lot of experience with large commercial applications. It also has a large active community of developers. Prior to founding EnterpriseDB there was no year to MySQL AB comparable provider for PostgreSQL databases. Illustra, a company founded by Michael Stonebraker and Gary Morgan Thaler company that also offered support for PostgreSQL, was sold to Informix in 1997.
Today, the company is trying to establish itself as a direct competitor of Oracle. In April 2009, EnterpriseDB and IBM signed an agreement with Oracle compatibility for the IBM DB2 database system using EnterpriseDB technology to make available. The resulting therefrom product is sold by the IBM Netezza subsidiary under the brand name Netezza Migrator.
Another commercial competitor is EMC ² with the PostgreSQL version Greenplum.
Products
- PostgreSQL free update service and installer for Windows and Mac OS X and free migration tool for MySQL to PostgreSQL
- Postgres Plus Standard Server (PostgreSQL with additional components such as SQL / Protect, PL / Secure Update Monitor, xDB Replication Server, and technical support )
- Postgres Plus Advanced Server ( such as Plus Standard Server, but also compatibility with tools for Oracle databases, high availability solutions, developer tools).
The databases support the Linux distributions: CentOS 5.x, 6.x and 5.x, RHEL, OpenSUSE 11.x, 11.x and Ubuntu 10.4 LTS SLES and Windows Server 2008 R2 This package include management tools for the control and maintenance of many servers contain from a single location.
- Postgres Plus Cloud Database provides the ability PostgreSQL or Postgres Plus to use databases as a service to operate and maintain itself without a database server must. The service should be equal to cost the same as the MySQL -based Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS ), and is positioned as a competitor to appropriate services proprietary database vendors.
The administration tools are, inter alia, enhanced versions of pgAdmin.
Open - source projects
EnterpriseDB else is involved in addition to the development of PostgreSQL on other open source projects:
- GridSQL, OLAP and data warehouse based on PostgreSQL ( with GPLv2 license).
- PgAdmin
- EnterpriseDB currently provides with Dave Page and Bruce Momjian two of the six members of the core team of PostgreSQL developer community.