pgEdge Announces General Availability of pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition
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pgEdge, Inc. has announced the general availability of pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition, the first fully distributed Database as a Service (DBaaS) built on PostgreSQL. This cloud service is designed for applications requiring multi-region deployment, offering high availability, lower latency, and data residency compliance.
Key features include:
- Active-active replication with multi-master architecture
- Multi-region, multi-cloud deployment across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
- Latency-based routing for improved performance
- Enhanced security and consistent configuration
- Automated backups and software upgrades
pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition aims to simplify the deployment and management of distributed PostgreSQL databases in cloud environments, backed by enterprise-grade SLAs. Early adopters like Jobot, Kobold Metals, and Enquire.ai are already using the service in production.
Positive
- Launch of pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition, a fully distributed Database as a Service
- Multi-region, multi-cloud deployment capability across major cloud providers
- Features for high availability, lower latency, and data residency compliance
- Early adoption by customers like Jobot, Kobold Metals, and Enquire.ai
Negative
- None.
Insights
pgEdge's release of Cloud Enterprise Edition marks a significant advancement in distributed PostgreSQL database technology. This fully managed DBaaS offers several key benefits:
- Multi-region, multi-cloud deployment with active-active replication
- Latency-based routing for improved performance and fault tolerance
- Enhanced security and consistent configuration across nodes
- Automated management, including backups and upgrades
These features address critical needs for globally distributed applications, such as high availability, data residency compliance and reduced latency. The "BYO Account" option allows enterprises to leverage existing cloud infrastructure and security frameworks, potentially reducing costs and improving compliance.
While this release is promising for businesses requiring distributed database solutions, its impact on pgEdge as a company may be in the short term. The product's success will depend on adoption rates and competition from established cloud database providers. Long-term potential exists if pgEdge can capture a significant market share in the growing distributed database space.
Making it Easier and More Secure to Distribute PostgreSQL Databases
Across Multiple Regions and Cloud Providers
pgEdge Cloud builds upon the recent "Constellation" release of pgEdge Platform, which introduced advancements in Postgres logical replication, including parallel processing, large object support and enhanced error handling, providing users with greater throughput, flexibility and control. The GA release of pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition offers these capabilities in a fully managed cloud service and brings additional enterprise-class features catering to the demands of globally distributed, high performance, and "always on" applications.
Key features of pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition include:
- Easy deployment and management of active-active replication
A robust multi-master architecture manages both read and write traffic with built-in conflict resolution and automated DDL replication to allow seamless replication of database data and schemas across nodes. With dynamic cluster management, users can add or remove nodes as needed, allowing flexibility to scale up or down across regions. - Multi-region, multi-cloud and BYO account
Distributed database nodes can be readily deployed into any region across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, giving customers flexibility and resilience. Customers deploy into their own cloud provider accounts ("BYO Account") to leverage their security tooling, compliance frameworks and enterprise cloud discount programs. - Latency based routing for low latency and fault tolerance
Latency based routing ensures users are always connected to the nearest running pgEdge node, reducing data latency, improving application performance, and guarding against cloud region failures. - Enhanced security and consistent configuration
pgEdge Cloud handles all provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure, ensuring a secure configuration is deployed consistently across each node and region. This can be driven through an easy-to-use visual interface, or alternatively via a REST API directly or IaC tools such as Terraform and Pulumi, allowing pgEdge Cloud deployments to be automated within CI/CD pipelines.
As a fully managed cloud service, pgEdge Cloud provides numerous advantages and significantly reduced complexity for enterprises looking to deploy distributed PostgreSQL in a cloud environment. Automated backups and software upgrades ensure business continuity, safeguarding of critical data, and eliminating downtime. The pgEdge Cloud managed service is backed by enterprise-grade Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
"pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition is a significant leap forward in our mission to make it easy for developers to build, deploy and run enterprise-class distributed Postgres applications across the global network," said Phillip Merrick, Co-founder and CEO at pgEdge. "We are pleased to see early pgEdge Cloud customers such as Jobot, Kobold Metals and Enquire.ai already going into production."
"We're thrilled to partner with pgEdge to enhance the enterprise-class readiness of pgEdge Cloud," said Nadeem Reinhardt, CTO of Jobot, the AI-powered innovator transforming the hiring and career landscape. "With pgEdge Cloud, we're set to minimize latency, maximize availability, and bolster resiliency—perfectly supporting our geo-distributed infrastructure needs and continued growth."
For more information on pgEdge Cloud visit www.pgedge.com or to get started sign up for a free trial at https://www.pgedge.com/get-started/cloud.
About pgEdge
pgEdge, the leading company dedicated to distributed Postgres, has made its mission to make it easy for developers to build and deploy highly distributed database applications across the global network. Founded by industry veterans who have championed enterprise usage of the PostgreSQL database for several decades and helped run the world's largest managed database cloud services, pgEdge is headquartered in
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