Which Postgres is Right for You? Part 3

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So many Options,
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Part 3 of 3
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•  The Enterprise Challenge
•  Enterprise Postgres
•  Evaluation guidelines
•  Scenarios
−  PostgreSQL without commercial support
−  Creating with a consulting partner
−  EDB Postgres Enterprise
•  Summary
•  Resources
•  Q&A
Agenda

The Enterprise Challenge
Little Money For
New Initiatives
Competitive
Disadvantage
$
t
$
Revenue
DBMS
Customer
Engagement

The Enterprise Challenge:
Open Source to the Rescue
35% 80% 80%
Software infrastructure
budget on DBMSs (1)
In-House applications
candidates to move off
expensive DBMSs (2)
Cost savings (3)
(1) Gartner, Forrester and EDB analysis
(2) The State of Open-Source RDBMS, 2015, Gartner, April 2015
(3) The State of Open-Source RDBMS, 2015, Gartner, April 2015; EDB analysis of customer experiences and market prices

POSTGRES
innovation
ENTERPRISE
reliability
24/7
support
Services
& training
Enterprise-class
features, tools &
compatibility
Certifications
Product
road-map
Control
Thousands
of developers
Fast
development
cycles
Low cost
No vendor
lock-in
Advanced
features
Enabling commercial
adoption of Postgres
Enterprise Postgres

Enterprise Postgres: EDB Postgres Platform

Evaluation guidelines: Risks
Technical Risks Business Risks
Capabilities
Roadmap
Tech Support
Time to Market
Cost
Relationships
Software Control

•  Mission-Critical Apps
•  Non-Mission-Critical Apps
•  Non-Production Apps
•  Time-to-Market Sensitivity
•  High Security and Performance
•  Oracle Compatibility
•  Access to Source Code
Evaluation guidelines: Usage Profiles

User works directly with community PostgreSQL binaries
without commercial assistance and works entirely within
the community participation process.
Scenario:
PostgreSQL without commercial support

Pros
•  Mature, capable
RDBMS
•  SQL standards
compliance
•  OLTP, READ,
mixed workloads
•  Unstructured
data support
Cons
•  Performance: Limited partitioning capabilities,
no workload manager, limited performance
diagnostics
•  Security: No SQL injection attack protection, no
password policy management, no enhanced
auditing
•  Limited developer usability and features
•  No integrated tool suites for monitoring,
management, tuning, high availability, backup
and recovery, or migration
•  No Oracle compatibility
Capabilities

Pros
•  A public wish list is
maintained by the Postgres
community
•  Your organization may
contribute code for features
Cons
•  Little insight into Community
database engineering
•  Little to no influence over
database roadmap
•  No guaranteed acceptance or
timelines for code submitted
Roadmap

Pros
•  Multiple community forums/
mailing lists for free technical
support
•  Postgres developers fix bugs
on an ongoing basis
Cons
•  No dedicated technical support
team
•  No service level agreements
(SLAs)
•  No hot fixes
•  No issue tracking portal
•  No regionally based support
Tech Support

Pros
•  No procurement time
Cons
•  Slower learning curve without
assistance
•  Longer time to set up, configure,
and tune database and tools
•  More difficult and therefore longer
migration from Oracle due to code
rewrites or refactoring
Time to Market

Pros
•  No upfront license fees
•  No maintenance/support fees
Cons
•  Cost for internal resources to
manage and support
•  Costs for training
•  Unpredictable costs for downtime
or slow performance
Cost

Pros
•  Flexibility to source vendors on
an as-needed basis
Cons
•  No commercial responsiveness or
incentives for mutual success
•  No direct access to Postgres
engineering resources
Relationships

Pros
•  Access to source
code
•  Liberal Postgres
license avoids
software
contamination
Cons
•  No influence over release schedules for the
database
•  Unknown levels of community QA testing
•  Self-reliability to manage software updates
and security alerts
•  Uncoordinated and inconsistent releases,
documentation, support and quality across
tools
•  No extended lifecycle support available
•  Potential public exposure of your
confidential and competitive information via
community interactions
Software Control

User works with community PostgreSQL binaries and
with a consultant to enhance their interactions with the
community and possibly as a source for some mission
critical tools and support.
Scenario:
PostgreSQL with a consulting partner

Pros
•  Mature, capable
RDBMS
•  SQL standards
compliance
•  OLTP, READ,
mixed workloads
•  Unstructured data
support
Cons
•  Performance: Limited partitioning
capabilities, no workload manager, limited
performance diagnostics
•  Security: No SQL injection attack protection,
no password policy management, no
enhanced auditing
•  Limited developer usability and features
•  No integrated tool suites for monitoring,
management, tuning, high availability,
backup and recovery, or migration
•  No Oracle compatibility
Capabilities

Pros
•  Level of insight into
community database
engineering depending on
partner relationships
•  No roadmap available but
some influence on community
database engineering
depending on partner
relationships
•  A public wish list is
maintained by the Community
Cons
•  No direct control over ongoing
roadmap feature development
•  Inconsistent levels of community
access and influence
•  Long lead times and uncertain
acceptance for custom features
into community code
Roadmap

Pros
•  Escalation support by a
Postgres consultant
•  Hot fixes might be available
•  Multiple community forums/
mailing lists for free technical
support
Cons
•  Variable ability to provide global
24/7 support based on size/
capabilities of partner
•  Inconsistent levels of support
ticket tracking and escalation
•  Limited regionally based support
•  Inconsistent access to and
influence with Postgres
community
Tech Support

Pros
•  Assistance with procurement,
set up and configuration of
database and associated
tooling
•  Consultant to assist with
general learning curve and
application development
•  Access to Postgres
resources for technical
support, training & consulting
Cons
•  Procurement time required to
source vendor and implement
working relationship
•  More difficult and therefore longer
migration from Oracle due to code
rewrites or refactoring
Time to Market

Pros
•  No upfront license
fees
Cons
•  Consultancy costs
•  Costs for training
•  Unpredictable costs for downtime or slow
performance
Cost

Pros
•  Commercial responsiveness
and incentives for mutual
success
•  Possible access to Postgres
engineering resources
depending on vendor
•  Custom training available
•  Access to help with deploying
new use cases and
deployment models through
vendor’s broader experience
base
Cons
•  Possible limits to supporting a
global brand.
•  May not provide full range of
consulting, engineering, support
and training services
•  Limited influence with Postgres
community
•  Lack of additional enterprise-
grade software features and tools
integrated with PostgreSQL
Relationships

Cons
•  No influence over release
schedules for the database
•  Unknown levels of community QA
testing
•  Self-reliability to manage software
updates and security alerts
•  Uncoordinated and inconsistent
releases, documentation, support
and quality across tools
•  No extended lifecycle support
available
Software Control
Pros
•  Access to source code
•  Extended lifecycle support
may be available.
•  Liberal PostgreSQL license
avoids software
contamination

Scenario:

User works with the EDB Postgres Advanced Server
database and mission-critical tool binaries and with EDB
for all roadmap input.
Scenario:
EDB Postgres Enterprise

Pros
•  Performance: Scalable partitioning,
workload manager, performance
diagnostics
•  Security: SQL /Protect, VPD, password
policy management, enhanced auditing
•  Integrated mission-critical tool suites for
monitoring, management, tuning, high
availability, backup and recovery, and
Oracle migration
Cons
•  None
Capabilities

Pros
•  High degree of insight into database
engineering.
•  High degree of insight into mission
critical tools engineering
•  High degree of influence over the
database roadmap
•  High degree of influence over mission
critical tools roadmaps
Cons
•  None
Roadmap

Cons
•  None
Tech Support
Pros
•  24/7 support with service level
agreements (SLAs)
•  Escalation support by EDB engineers
backed by Postgres community leaders
working at EDB
•  Hot fixes available “out of band” from
Postgres release schedule
•  Issue tracking portal
•  Technical Account Management
available
•  Community forums/mailing lists

Time to Market
Pros
•  EDB Consultants to assist with general
learning curve
•  Access to Postgres resources for
technical support, training, and
consulting including assistance with set
up and configuration of database
•  Bundled with integrated tool suites for
management, migration and integration
•  Additional features for security and
performance reduces need for extended
development or workarounds
•  Oracle compatibility enables easier and
faster migrations of Oracle applications,
and reduces training time for Oracle
DBAs and support staff.
Cons
•  Procurement time
required to source
vendor and implement
working relationship

Cost
Pros
•  No upfront license fees
•  No upfront maintenance/
support fees
•  Significant cost savings over
traditional vendors
Cons
•  Annual subscription fee

Relationships
Pros
•  Access to the highest concentration of
Postgres resources and services worldwide
•  Full service provider for software, support,
maintenance, tools, training and
certification, and consulting
•  Commercial responsiveness and incentives
for mutual success
•  Expertise supporting a global brand 24x7
•  Most extensive network of business
partnerships
•  Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader
Cons
•  Some dependence
on EDB for advanced
database features,
such as added
security,
performance, DBA
and developer
features, mission-
critical tool suites and
compatibility for
Oracle

Pros
•  Influence over release
schedules for database, minor
updates, mission-critical tool
suites
•  Reliable and documented testing
of all database and tool suite
releases
•  Automated software updates,
alerting and management
•  Extended lifecycle support may
be available
Cons
•  No access to database source
code
•  No access to source code for tool
suites
Software Control

Scenario:

Comparison
EDB Postgres
Enterprise
PostgreSQL with a
consulting partner
PostgreSQL without
commercial support

•  Postgres solution choice depends on usage and
willingness to take risks
•  Mission-critical workloads require an enterprise
platform
•  EDB Postgres Enterprise is the best solution for
enterprises who seek to deploy Postgres with minimum
risk
•  Save money and time with EDB Postgres
Summary

Whitepaper: Which Postgres is Right for Me
www.enterprisedb.com/Which-Postgres-Is-Right-For-Me
PostgreSQL Community Wish List
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo
Gartner: The State of Open-Source RDBMSs, 2015
info.enterprisedb.com/Gartner-MQ-2015.html
EDB Subscriptions
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/subscriptions
To learn more contact us at sales@enterprisedb.com.
Resources

Resources:
Getting Started with EDB Postgres
Comprehensive bundle of a
Developer license, Training &
Consulting, helping to make
development projects successful.
•  EDB Postgres Developer Subscription
•  On-Demand Training (2 classes)
•  Consulting (2 days-remote)
EDB Developer Kick Start
Comprehensive package for
groups of 2-4 developers & DBAs
in support of mission-critical
production Postgres
implementations, along with
expert guidance for Year 1.
•  EDB Postgres Developer Subscription
•  On-Demand Training (4 classes)
•  Consulting (5 days, remote)
•  RemoteDBA (1 year, 8 instances)
EDB Postgres Group Success with RemoteDBA

World-class training that delivers
the education, experience, and
excellence needed to be
successful
•  Training that fits your learning needs:
Classroom, Online, and Onsite.
•  eSubscriptions - access to all on-demand
Training in an annual subscription
•  DBA and developer course tracks available
•  Courses cover administration, migration,
performance tuning and more
Resources:
Postgres Skills Development Assistance
EDB is the industry-recognized
global standard for Postgres
Certification
Develop and validate in-house
Postgres skill and expertise
•  DBMSs covered include:
−  PostgreSQL
−  EDB Postgres Advanced Server
•  Associate & Professional levels
•  Convenient online exams
EDB Training provides:
EDB Certification provides:

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