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Why use PostgreSQL for your Business?

It’s the world’s most advanced open source database

PostgreSQL is highly suited to support mission-critical enterprise business requirements across all industry verticals including financial services, healthcare, government, and more.

You can deploy and integrate in the environment of choice: cloud (public or private), on-premise, containers, etc. based on your business requirements. PostgreSQL can also be designed in a variety of architectures that best suits your needs.

PostgreSQL is…

Enterprise-ready. Suited for mission critical business applications, PostgreSQL is highly secure out-of-the-box and can be configured for High Availability environments to ensure business continuity. It runs on all major operating systems, including Unix, Linux, macOS, and Windows, and offers a variety of programming languages.

Cost Effective. Free usage through a permissive license, even in commercial software products. Zero capital cost means projects can start as prototypes and develop quickly into production deployments.

Hyperconverged. NoSQL and other non-RDBMS features are natively supported within a relational database. This allows use of a single database even for highly specialized use cases.

Well Documented. PostgreSQL requires detailed documentation for any code submitted; it is then used to create documentation for the various formats available. Superior documentation eases use for developers using PostgreSQL and helps better understand the foundation for customization.

Actively Developed. There is a major release every year and minor release every quarter. No shortcuts are taken when writing PostgreSQL; developers carefully implement reliable algorithms for data protection while consistently producing new, robust features.

Supported by a Global Community. There are local user groups in over 35 countries all working together towards the cutting-edge development of PostgreSQL.

5 Reasons PostgreSQL Benefits Your Business

  1. No Vendor Lock-in. As PostgreSQL is not owned by any entity, you are able to choose the provider that is best for you at any point in time, avoiding expensive licensing and migration costs should you choose to change. There are a variety of vendors worldwide who provide support for PostgreSQL.
  2. PostgreSQL is Secure. Constantly being advanced and updated, Postgres is the most security-aware database available*.
  3. Unlimited Usage – It’s FREE… Forever! No capital expense to your business for production use, development, distribution, or selling through partners. There is no limit on the number of servers the database is installed on, the amount of data you store, or number of users who are given access.
  4. Permissive License. Enables you to Modify it, Embed it, Fork it, Distribute it. PostgreSQL can be designed and used legally within commercial applications and distributed without any implications.
  5. Anyone can use it & developers choose it. Voted the most-loved database by Stack Overflow, PostgreSQL is preferred by developers and professionals.

Read more about how PostgreSQL is the Coolest Database in the blog series.

Support for PostgreSQL

Engaging enterprise Support for your PostgreSQL production databases minimizes risk for your business and can optimize internal efficiency. This is a scalable and cost-effective solution for companies of all sizes and provides access to PostgreSQL experts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to ensure uninterrupted access to your data and fast resolution should an issue arise.

Learn More about PostgreSQL Support

Database Migration

Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL is only about as expensive as upgrading from one Oracle major version to the next. There are tools to automate much of the process, making it both reliable and reproducible. However, processes that cannot be automated are handled by experts. Well-versed database professionals in both Oracle and PostgreSQL, like those at 2ndQuadrant, can execute such procedures seamlessly with little to no downtime. Every minute of database downtime could potentially cost millions of dollars in lost revenue, opportunity cost, and compliance penalties.

PostgreSQL Business Cases

Finance
Retail brokerage firm tastyworks is leading a financial revolution for the do-it-yourself investor. Their cutting-edge technology applications are supported by the 400% performance boost achieved while using PostgreSQL. Read Full Case Study

Healthcare
Leading provider of RIS (Radiology Information Systems) to public healthcare organizations, health trusts, hospitals, and clinics in the UK, Healthcare Software Systems (HSS), migrates high-performing databases to open source PostgreSQL. Read Full Case Study

Intergovernmental
The European Space Agency (ESA) creates the most complete census of the Milky Way Galaxy with the help of PostgreSQL, a scalable and open solution supporting the massively parallel and distributed database for their largest milestone mission yet: The Gaia project. Read Full Case Study

Software as a Service (SaaS)
ClickUp, a SaaS project management and collaboration software, helps users manage tasks, documents, conversations, and timelines all in one place. ClickUp used PostgreSQL to handle the complexity of their application’s scalability and performance requirements as the steadily increased. Read Full Case Study

Meteorological Services
The UK-based global leader in weather and climate science migrates to PostgreSQL from Oracle DB to reduce costs and support the utilization of some of the most powerful computing technology available. Read Full Case Study

Cartography & Electronic Mapping
Nautical electronic navigation company, Navionics, drastically lowered the cost of database management and software licensing through migrating to PostgreSQL. With the world’s largest database of marine and lake charts, they deployed a highly scalable system with a backup and recovery strategy for its critical environment. Read Full Case Study

Knowledge Base

Whitepaper: The Business Case for Support

This whitepaper discusses the importance of professional support for mission-critical PostgreSQL database systems. Learn how PostgreSQL Support will reduce business cost, save you from known pitfalls, help you scale, distribute your data, and what to look for in PostgreSQL Support companies.

Download Whitepaper

PostgreSQL Learning Center

Explore interactive webinars, hands-on training and courses, insightful videos, technical whitepapers, and best-selling PostgreSQL books to prepare yourself for working with Postgres or to achieve success with effective management of Postgres in your environment.

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*Source: The Database Hacker’s Handbook: Defending Database Servers by David Litchfield et al. (2005)

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