Today your applications face unprecedented demands: they must be always-on, globally responsive, and capable of serving users anywhere with the option of meeting complex data residency requirements. 

For web and AI applications that rely on PostgreSQL, we're excited to announce that the pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL platform is now available on Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode), a cloud vendor that "brings core cloud computing and edge computing together, along with industry-leading security — all on the most distributed network on the planet." Together, pgEdge and Akamai Cloud create a powerful solution, bringing performance and availability for database infrastructure to the network edge.

Providing Consistency to Akamai Cloud with pgEdge

While Akamai has long made it easy for developers to place their applications close to users through their extensive global infrastructure (with over 4,100 points of presence), many databases have remained centralized, creating latency bottlenecks and single points of failure. Now, with pgEdge running on Akamai Cloud, you can deploy distributed active-active multi-master PostgreSQL databases at or near the edge to ensure your applications deliver consistently fast performance regardless of where your users are located.

How pgEdge Makes a Difference

pgEdge is a fully distributed PostgreSQL database optimized for high availability and low latency. As a true multi-master (active-active) distributed database, pgEdge facilitates read and/or write operations on every node in a cluster, providing several key advantages:

100% Standard PostgreSQL: pgEdge maintains full compatibility with PostgreSQL, including complete language support, triggers, stored procedures, all data types, functions, operators, and the full SQL syntax. This means you can leverage existing PostgreSQL expertise and tools without modification.

100% Open (Source Available): Our source code is completely open and available for review, ensuring transparency and security for deployments everywhere.

Write Anywhere Architecture: Unlike traditional read-replica setups, pgEdge's multi-master architecture allows you to write to any node in your cluster. Our logical replication system keeps nodes synchronized while providing automatic conflict resolution and load distribution.

Fault Tolerance: If one data center experiences an outage—whether from infrastructure failure or something as simple as a severed fiber optic cable—when applications are configured for zero-downtime operations, traffic can be automatically rerouted to another database node for optimal resilience.

Interested in learning more about pgEdge on your own? Don’t forget, you can:

  1. Visit pgedge.com/akamai to see a demo video

  2. Visit pgEdge.com for comprehensive documentation and getting started guides.

  3. Explore our growing library of how-to videos and tutorials on YouTube.

Real-World Impact

Customers, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies and governmental organizations like the European Parliament, leverage pgEdge's flexibility to address diverse use cases such as:

  • High-frequency trading platforms requiring millisecond response times

  • AI applications at the edge that need contextual awareness and state sharing across locations

  • Global applications serving users across multiple continents

  • Mission-critical systems that cannot tolerate downtime

AI at the Edge

By distributing your PostgreSQL databases globally, you can:

  • Share state and context across geographic locations

  • Maintain data locality for compliance requirements

  • Reduce response times for AI inference requests

  • Scale AI workloads efficiently across regions

One of the most compelling use cases for pgEdge on Akamai Cloud is enabling AI at the edge. This distributed data layer opens up additional flexibility for handling complex AI use cases in a performant manner while maintaining application availability.

pgEdge Deployment Options for Akamai Cloud

pgEdge is certified to run on Akamai Cloud with flexible self-hosted deployment options:

  • Containers: Deploy pgEdge Platform using your preferred container orchestration platform

  • Virtual machines: Run pgEdge on traditional VM infrastructure for maximum control

Looking to the Future

The combination of pgEdge's distributed PostgreSQL capabilities and Akamai Cloud's global infrastructure represents a fundamental shift in how we think about database architecture. Instead of accepting the latency and availability trade-offs of a centralized database, you can deliver consistently fast, reliable data access to users anywhere in the world, self-hosting your instances with vendors like Akamai Cloud or receiving fully managed services with pgEdge Cloud.

Whether you're building the next generation of web applications, deploying AI workloads at scale, or modernizing existing systems for global reach, pgEdge on Akamai Cloud provides the foundation you need to succeed.

Ready to get started? Head to the Platform Download for Akamai page to start deploying distributed PostgreSQL on Akamai Cloud, contact our team to discuss your specific use case and requirements, or schedule a live demo to see how it all works. 

Stay tuned for our upcoming tutorial on setting up pgEdge specifically with Akamai Cloud, coming soon!