primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . february 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message enterprisedb corporation type private industry software & database founded march 2004 1 headquarters bedford massachusetts usa key people ed boyajian ceo paul blondin cfo gerry boucher svp services mike huseman svp sales business development marc linster ph.d. svp products and services keith alsheimer cmo lenley hensarling svp strategy and product management products software subscriptions based on postgresql and edb postgres advanced server both of which include support upgrades and tools for database management high availability integration and migration . rdbms website www.enterprisedb.com enterprisedb edb is a privately held company that provides software and services based on the open source database postgresql . edb develops and integrates performance security and manageability enhancements into postgresql to support enterprise class workloads for its database edb postgres advanced server . edb has also developed database compatibility for oracle to facilitate the migration of workloads from oracle to edb postgres and support the operation of many oracle workloads on edb postgres . 2 edb sells subscriptions to its edb postgres platform with the option of edb postgres advanced server or postgresql as the database . the platform subscriptions include tool suites upgrades support and maintenance . edb was positioned in the leaders quadrant in the gartner magic quadrant for operational database management systems in october 2014 3 and again in september 2015 . 4 contents 1 history 2 products 3 services 4 references 5 external links history edit edb was founded in 2004 . the growing acceptance of open source software created a market opportunity and the company wanted to challenge the database oligarchy with a standards based product that was compatible with other vendor solutions . enterprisedb sought to develop an open source based enterprise class relational database to compete with established vendors at an open source price point . the company chose postgresql as its technology foundation because of postgresql s record of over 20 years of large scale commercial deployments its thriving developer community and its reputation as the most robust open source database available . edb introduced its prototype database enterprisedb 2005 in 2005 . it was named best database solution at linuxworld that year beating solutions from oracle mysql and ibm . 5 edb renamed the database enterprisedb advanced server with its march 2006 release . the database was renamed postgres plus advanced server in march 2008 . 6 in april 2016 with the introduction of the edb postgres platform edb s fully integrated next generation data management platform the database was renamed to edb postgres advanced server . 7 products edit the edb postgres platform is available in three subscriptions i edb postgres enterprise ii edb postgres standard and iii edb postgres developer . the edb postgres enterprise subscription includes the edb postgres advanced server database and database compatibility with oracle . edb postgres standard includes the postgresql database . all three subscriptions include comprehensive management integration migration tool suites global support and upgrades and are deployable across a wide range of on premise and cloud configurations . the tool suites are the management suite which includes tools for monitoring optimizing tuning and managing large database deployments ; high availability ; backup and recovery architectures . the integration suite which features capabilities for federated database systems and integration with applications from other database management solutions . the integration suite includes the edb postgres replication server and a collection of edb postgres data adapters which are based on the foreign data wrapper functionality in postgresql . the suite includes data adapters for hadoop and mongodb . 8 the migration suite includes toolkits that enable organizations to assess applications that are best candidates for migration to edb postgres and tools for actual migrations . edb postgres plus cloud database enterprisedb offers two editions of a cloud database . these are the edb postgres plus cloud database advanced which includes the edb postgres advanced server database and edb postgres plus cloud database basic which includes the postgresql database . the management console in the cloud products provision databases in single instances high availability clusters or development sandboxes for database as a service environments . services edit in addition to custom consulting engagements edb provides the following packaged services postgres architecture services include the enterprise architecture setup service which assists organizations in setting up their edb postgres environments and the architectural health check a three day audit of the postgres environment with recommendations for improving performance . migration assessment consists of an analysis of an oracle database architecture configuration and application usage to rate the complexity of migrations across five key compatibility categories . remotedba provides organizations with round the clock global database monitoring and regular database maintenance at three different levels of service to meet a spectrum of needs . edb technical account manager is a designated postgres resource that works closely with an organization s it organization to provide guidance on using postgres . training and certification edb provides training from postgres experts in multiple formats live virtual online ; on demand online courses ; and live in classroom . edb provides two levels of certification for postgresql and for edb postgres advanced server ; they are associate and professional . references edit about enterprisedb company enterprisedb standing out from the crowd . enterprisedb positioned in the leaders quadrant in gartner s magic quadrant for operational database management systems . disruption alert gartner s operational dbms leaders . linuxworld san francisco 2005 enterprisedb wins best database award . enterprisedb introduces postgres plus product family . edb launches industry s first integrated open source based operational database management platform . enterprisedb readies postgres for big data apps . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title enterprisedb & oldid 730771377 categories technology companies of the united statessoftware companies based in massachusettsfree database management systemsamerican companies established in 2004free software companiespostgresqlcompanies based in massachusettscross platform softwaresoftware companies established in 2004open source database management systemshidden categories use mdy dates from october 2015articles lacking reliable references from february 2013all articles lacking reliable referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch polski edit links this page was last modified on 21 july 2016 at 00 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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