Category: PostgreSQL compatible

Septemeber 2025: : This post was reviewed for accuracy. Parallel queries in PostgreSQL have the ability to use more than one CPU core per query. In parallel queries the optimizer breaks down the query tasks into smaller parts and spreads each task across multiple CPU cores. Each core can process the tasks at the same […]

Vehicle route planning with the goals of meeting customer satisfaction expectations, reducing fuel consumption, and reducing emissions can be challenging. The vehicle routing problem (VRP) goal is to find optimal routes for multiple vehicles visiting multiple locations to fulfill business-specific constraints such as cost and time. The VRP has various use cases in industries such […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Customers want to migrate from SQL Server to license-free databases like Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL–Compatible Edition, but it takes considerable work from an application point of view. Applications have SQL Server database code written in T-SQL; to modify that takes effort and is time-consuming. With Babelfish for Aurora […]

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL are managed PostgreSQL solutions that make it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. They provide cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. As you […]

  Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition version 9.6 end of life is approaching. If you’re currently running PostgreSQL 9.6, you must upgrade your databases or AWS will automatically upgrade your RDS for PostgreSQL databases starting January 18, 2022, and Aurora PostgreSQL databases starting January 31, 2022. Unlike […]

Sorting is one of the most fundamental operations in databases, and optimizing this process is vital to the performance of applications. Sorting involves arranging records in a database table into some meaningful order to make it easier to understand, analyze, and visualize the data. For example, you might want to sort orders by their delivery […]

Critical workloads with a global footprint, such as financial, travel, or gaming applications, have strict availability and disaster recovery requirements and may need to tolerate a Region-wide outage. Traditionally, this requires difficult trade-offs between performance, availability, cost, and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). In some situations, routine maintenance tasks like database […]

Do you have a database where the size of relations on disk is larger than you expect? Did you observe this size increasing every time you ran several UPDATE and DELETE operations on the relations? Did you observe adverse effects on performance of the database as a result of this? This might be a result […]

Enterprises both large and small, across diverse industries and with varying levels of cloud maturity, recognize the importance and value of deploying active/active database configurations. An active/active system is a network of independent processing nodes, each having access to a common replicated database so all nodes can participate in a common application. Some enterprises are […]

Global organizations that operate and do business in many countries need to be compliant with data sovereignty and other compliance rules like GDPR. For example, you may want to replicate data to other Regions while at the same time removing certain columns to adhere to privacy laws within a country. In this post, we demonstrate […]