Database Wars Hot Up With Oracle Targeted By Commercial PostgreSQL
Database Wars Hot Up With Oracle Targeted By Commercial
August 21st, 2006: EnterpriseDB - a company seeking to sell commercialised versions of the heavyweight Open Source PostgreSQL database system - launches an Oracle migration addition.
EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.1 (revision 2) sees a direct targeting of Oracle by the company (EnterpriseDB) that formed in March 2004 to take PostgreSQL into the commercial sphere. This follows the announcement earlier this year that Sony had decided to move its games websites away from Oracle and on to EnterpriseDB.
Although strictly only a revision of existing and existing product line, the interesting point regarding 8.1 is the definite focus on industry heavyweight, Oracle via migration and management tools.
According to EnterpriseDB, the new revision features:
- Automated migration of data and business logic from Oracle databases to EnterpriseDB Advanced Server.
- Integrated Oracle database browsing
- Enhanced security features
- Near real replication.
- The ability to replicate data to or from databases including Oracle
- Operating system support for Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X.
The company also announced the release of EnterpriseDB Replication Server. For the Enterprise, the idea of a database system with poor (or non-existent) replication is a major deal-breaker. This has been seen by many as a reason for the limited take-up of MySQL at the high-end.
According to the company, the new replication server offers:
Databases, their management, support, and interoperability across operating systems, are centrally important to any ECM (Enterprise Content Management) system. The rise of MySQL and PostgreSQL from what has been seen as at best online, web-backends, and at worst, geek-toys, to their appearance on the Enterprise radar is - and will cause - further upheaval to the existing players. The basic promise of reduced ROI combined with ongoing development is weighed against 'rip and replace', trusted support and historical robustness of systems from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.