Although proprietary database offerings provide considerable benefits to the companies, many complain about the high cost of acquiring and maintaining such offerings. Now, EnterpriseDB officials claim to have combined the price and performance benefits of a community-developed open source technology with the release of its Postgres Plus Standard Server 8.4.
According to EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL is the only full-featured open source relational database management system available today. PostgreSQL has more than 15 years of active development, according to company officials. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows. It also has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures in multiple languages.
PostgreSQL 8.4 boasts of many new features such as commercial support and access to resources that ensure successful usage of open source databases in the enterprise, StackBuilder Plus and Update Service, Migration Toolkits, and Certification Testing.
“PostgreSQL adoption is growing exponentially. The community is thriving, the technology is proven and organizations everywhere are fed up with expensive proprietary database offerings. This amounts to a perfect storm for PostgreSQL,” said Ed Boyajian, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB. “PostgreSQL is ready for prime-time and we are making it a reality for those who have been hesitant to deploy an open source product without commercial development and support resources.”
Developer and production subscriptions for Postgres Plus Standard Server are available by developer or per socket with pricing starting at $995. PostgreSQL has been developed based on contributions from more than 200 developers. Recent versions of PostgreSQL have been downloaded millions of times, company officials said.
Recently, VDEL company is a master distributor of EnterpriseDB products in the regions it serves. VDEL will resell and fully support EnterpriseDB’s line of open source database products and services, ultimately meeting the growing demand for a cost-effective alternative to proprietary databases. This agreement is said to allow the company to market PostgreSQL as a low-cost alternative to proprietary databases.