Compare your options.
Fully distributed PostgreSQL has evolved.
Close-up look at pgEdge, pgLogical, EnterpriseDB, and Oracle Goldengate.
Postgres users have significant new options for fully distributed Postgres. Most significant are new options for authentic bi-directional multi-master replication with the bells and whistles global enterprises require to address high availability, data latency and data residency needs.
Some believe these changes are a game-changer for PostgreSQL, elevating open source as a serious and formidable alternative to expensive commercial databases. Most important, with newcomer pgEdge, the enterprise-class enhancements are fully open and fully Postgres.
Feature | pgEdge | EnterpriseDB | pgLogical | Oracle Goldengate |
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Fully distributed PostgreSQL | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Based on current, standard PostgreSQL | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Fully open (source code available, non-proprietary) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Integration with edge platforms (e.g. Cloudflare Workers) | ✓ | |||
Customizable multi-master, data residency to meet international data guidelines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Out-of-the-box support for Postgres extensions such as TimescaleDB | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Multi-master, multi-active | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Read/write logical replication with conflict resolution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Configurable conflict resolution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Running sums conflict avoidance | ✓ | |||
Multi-cloud | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Available On-prem | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Single CLI & GUI for configuration and management | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Near-zero downtime upgrade | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Support for hybrid multi-master clusters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Multi-region replicas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
24/7 enterprise level support. 99.9% uptime SLAs. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |