EnterpriseDB’s New Multi-Master Replication Ensures and Expands Data Access Across Regional and Global Systems - Mailing list pgsql-announce

Release Date:
Dec 11, 2012

 Multi-Master Replication provides PostgreSQL administrators broad new
powers to expand access to data while controlling costs

BEDFORD, Mass. – December 11, 2012 – EnterpriseDB, the leading
worldwide provider of enterprise-class Postgres products, Oracle
database compatibility solutions and add-on tools for PostgreSQL,
today announced the public release of Postgres Plus xDB Replication
Server v5.0 with Multi-Master Replication (MMR). The new MMR
capability eliminates a single point of failure, improving High
Availability. It also enables database administrators (DBAs) to
provide consistent and expanded access to near real-time data across
geographically distributed systems. These benefits also help control
costs compared to traditional database solutions.

With the estimated number of downloads of PostgreSQL topping 70,000
per week, a 40 percent increase over last year’s weekly average,
enterprises worldwide are accelerating their adoption of Postgres and
its components. This has fueled demand for enterprise-class add-on
capabilities like Multi-Master Replication that give DBAs greater
flexibility and broad new powers to leverage their open source
deployments. Add-on tools help them customize their deployments to
address individual needs for scalability, availability and
performance.

“Multi-Master Replication capability is the kind of enterprise feature
that has won recognition for Postgres among large, global brands,” Ed
Boyajian, CEO and President of EnterpriseDB, said. “Our leadership
position as the largest provider of Postgres solutions gives us a
responsibility to deliver tools for EnterpriseDB customers and
PostgreSQL users that help them meet the broad demands of the
enterprise. Our MMR capability marks a significant advance in our
mission.”

“PostgreSQL has achieved a meaningful presence in the market and
global brands now consider it a viable alternative to traditional
databases for a range of mission critical and non-mission critical
applications,” Donald Feinberg, Vice President and Distinguished
Analyst of Gartner, said. “Fortune 500 customers provide the
underlying demand and support for add-on tools that enable DBAs to
extract greater value from their databases and contribute to business
objectives by expanding access to data and cutting licensing and
hardware costs.”

Multi-Master Replication Benefits

Multi-Master Replication presents significant benefits for
geographically distributed organizations. DBAs can designate a master
for each locality for better write and read performance. Also,
multiple masters throughout an organization – whether local or
geographically dispersed – eliminates a single point of failure for
e-commerce and other round the clock operations. If one master goes
down, traffic can be routed to one of the other masters. This improves
High Availability of their systems.

Also, for geographically dispersed systems that rely on one or more
batch updates daily to bring everyone up to date from a central
master, a continuously synchronizing multi-master system allows
everyone to see all the data in near real time eliminating stale views
of critical data.

Finally, with replication, DBAs can expand user access to the data and
continue to utilize existing tools while also using commodity
hardware. More technical details of the new capability include:

Improved write performance for multi-location updating and
applications that are tolerant of eventual consistency Read
scalability for read-mostly applications
Enhanced write availability in single or multiple data centers
Near real-time data synchronization across geographies.

For more information on the new Multi-Master Replication add-on tool,
please
visithttp://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/products-overview/postgres-plus-solution-pack/xdb-replication-server/downloads

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About EnterpriseDB Corporation

EnterpriseDB, based in Bedford, MA, is the leading worldwide provider
of enterprise-class PostgreSQL and Oracle database compatibility
products and services. Used by thousands of business and government
customers globally, EnterpriseDB delivers the industry’s best
price-performance in a relational database. Employing some of the most
innovative members of the PostgreSQL Community, EnterpriseDB builds
upon 25-plus years of development to provide companies a proven,
secure and feature-rich alternative to costly traditional databases.
EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus family of products includes the open
source community PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus Advanced Server with Oracle
database compatibility, a Database-as-a-Service with its Postgres Plus
Cloud Database and enterprise management and monitoring tools. Founded
in 2004, EnterpriseDB is backed by Charles River Ventures, Volition
Capital (formerly Fidelity Ventures), Valhalla Partners and strategic
investors including Red Hat, IBM, NTT and KT. For more information,
please visit http://enterprisedb.com.

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