Thu Sep 26 13:00:00 UTC 2024: ## EnterpriseDB Boosts PostgreSQL 17 with Performance and AI Capabilities

**BEDFORD, Mass. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)** – EnterpriseDB (EDB), a leading Postgres data and AI company, today announced its significant contributions to the latest release of PostgreSQL, version 17. This landmark release, driven by over 200 developers worldwide, including 19 EDB employees, solidifies EDB’s commitment to the PostgreSQL community and brings substantial performance, reliability, and versatility improvements for modern workloads.

“Our work on PostgreSQL 17 underscores a belief that Postgres isn’t just a database – it’s a data platform supporting your most critical business systems,” said Jozef de Vries, Chief Product Engineering Officer at EDB. “By introducing features like incremental backups and advancing features like JSON functionality and performance, EDB is doubling down on our commitment to the open source project while enabling enterprises to ‘just use Postgres’ to solve their most pressing data challenges.”

Key highlights of PostgreSQL 17 include:

* **Incremental backups:** This new feature significantly simplifies backup and recovery for high-update workloads, reducing storage costs and downtime.
* **Performance enhancements:** Overhaul of the transaction subsystem with new locking techniques deliver performance boosts of up to 100x, enabling a wider range of applications to be migrated to Postgres.
* **Advanced JSON functionality:** The introduction of JSON_TABLE and expanded SQL/JSON methods streamline data processing, allowing developers to work with relational and non-relational data seamlessly.
* **Improved subtransaction handling and reduced memory requirements:** This enhances scalability and speeds up query processing in complex environments.

“Building on customer feedback, EDB collaborated with the community to overhaul portions of the transaction subsystem, implementing new locking techniques that deliver performance boosts of up to 100x,” said Tom Kincaid, Senior Vice President, Database Servers and Tools at EDB. “This breakthrough enables an entirely new class of applications to be migrated to Postgres with minimal changes, greatly expanding the database’s applicability.”

Beyond these technical advancements, EDB is also promoting Postgres’s capabilities for AI workloads. Earlier this year, EDB launched EDB Postgres® AI, an intelligent platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads. Later this year, EDB will release an O’Reilly Animal book, “Building Intelligent Applications with PostgreSQL and AI,” exploring how Postgres meets and exceeds the demands of modern AI applications.

With these contributions, EDB continues to solidify PostgreSQL’s position as the world’s most popular database, making it a compelling option for large-scale data analytics and AI workloads.

**About EnterpriseDB**

EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs, and scale efficiently for a data and AI-led world. For more information, visit http://www.enterprisedb.com.

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