EDB boasts ‘five nines’ uptime in new Postgres database version

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a industrial model of the favored open-source Postgres database administration system, at this time introduced model 5.0 of EDB Postgres Distributed with new high-availability options, simpler set up and the flexibility to combine with the Open Telemetry suite of observability instruments.

The corporate, which was acquired by Bain Capital LP in June, mentioned the brand new model delivers as much as 99.999% uptime with active-active know-how, which makes use of a community of impartial processing nodes that every have entry to a typical replicated database.

“We’ve launched some next-generation connection routing capabilities that make it simpler for customers to handle how connections are getting routed from the appliance to the writable database nodes,” mentioned Jozef de Vries (pictured), chief product engineering officer. “We additionally launched some enhancements round commit-at-most-once fashions. It’s a functionality that we see numerous demand for, nevertheless it hasn’t been on the efficiency ranges that we needed.”

Managed replication

Availability is managed by means of replication throughout areas with clients having the choice to make use of geographic redundancy for extra safety. “This permits for backups throughout areas, or clients can create a parallel three-node cluster in a second area and configure replication between these two,” de Vries mentioned. “If a complete area goes down, the appliance can simply fail over to that different location with out incurring any downtime.”

This launch can also be considerably simpler for patrons to put in and configure, he mentioned. Postgres Distributed “could be a fairly sophisticated system and traditionally has required a good quantity of engagement from our skilled providers and assist groups to assist clients grow to be profitable,” de Vries mentioned. “During the last three releases, we now have made an enormous push to make it a extra self-sustaining piece of software program that customers can pull down off the shelf, deploy and use by themselves.”

Constructing block structure

Configuration flexibility is enhanced by means of using what he referred to as a “constructing block structure. You can begin with a base configuration in a single area and as your availability necessities improve you may scale these constructing blocks throughout areas or inside a area to realize increased levels of availability.”

Using pre-configured blocks additionally permits configuration to be carried out in a repeatable and constant method. “This tooling permits them to confirm that the whole lot has been configured in a method that results in a sustainable and steady database system,” de Vries mentioned.

That is additionally the primary launch to be obtainable with a 60-day free trial. Whereas open-source Postgres is all the time free, the enterprise model with superior replication and distributed database options has beforehand been obtainable solely with a paid license.

EDB Postgres Distributed 5.0 is instantly obtainable by means of the EDB Excessive Excessive Availability license plan. The brand new options will even be included into the corporate’s BigAnimal managed database-as-a-service inside the subsequent 4 to 5 months, de Vries mentioned.

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