“We’re trying to keep our Oracle footprint as small as we can, and we have seen the value in EDB Postgres Plus Not having to pay Oracle is priceless.”

"The power usage data that is sent in from endpoints like sensors is stored in a database built with Hbase, and then reconciled with endpoint attribute information that is stored in EDB Postgres. Because the entire EMS is rendered unable to function if a delay with EDB Postgres reconciliation processing …

“Prior to this initiative, the volume of paperwork was so high that our inspectors could spend days analyzing the documents. Both the Authority and the industry itself wanted to find a way to reduce inspection time while increasing the quality of the inspections. That required us to build a completely …

“We had issues with the Oracle Database we were using at the time, including support and cost structure in a virtual environment. We had to carefully consider the higher licensing costs, which would affect the price of services we provide to our customers."

“As a result of picking up typical batch programs and verifying the compatibility between Oracle Database and EDB, we found that more than half of our programs could be migrated to EDB with almost no modification."

"During the actual migration, we encountered some compatibility issues, but Ashisuto's QA Support Service carefully investigated and answered our questions. As such we were able to quickly resolve the issues each time. Thanks to this, the project proceeded very close to schedule."

"The company was also able to take advantage of EDB’s database compatibility for Oracle to migrate a number of applications quickly without having to re-write application code or retrain existing staff."

“In order to provide our clients with quality and in-time service delivery, it is crucial for us that we ensure high availability and continuity for our applications."

"As part of the European data center consolidation project, we decided to immediately make use of the opportunity to migrate our reporting application to EDB Postgres. This migration forced us to build a solid new database platform based on EDB Postgres, which accelerated the use of EDB Postgres by other …

“At one point, we had SAS, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and BDB all backing various services. We had five databases. That’s not a situation we wanted to be in.”

“We tried Oracle for a few years, but the authentication mechanism wasn’t efficient enough for us.”

“EDB brought in Co-Founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Bruce Momjian, to help. During this chaotic and critical period, Bruce was in constant contact and able to find a solution to get us back to where we needed to be. Access to that expertise is crucial.”

"We only gave our DBAs very basic training on how to connect to Postgres and they were up and running very quickly."

“The content management demands being placed on our customers are increasing, and the processing power of our previous infrastructure could not keep up.”

“When planning our system re-architecture, we explored NoSQL and document store platforms as potential options, but none provided database compatibility that did not require application refactoring."