As the year draws to a close, we’re taking a deep dive into the data to present you EDB’s greatest hits in 2023. Customers come to our website looking for tools and information to help them get the most out of Postgres, and have an extensive library of content to help meet that need. We pulled some fun statistics for this post because we love to see how our content resonates with our customers and community, so we can keep serving up what you like most!

Top EDB Blog Posts of 2023

From riveting blogs to insightful whitepapers, engaging eBooks, and enriching webinars, we’re serving plenty of prime Postgres content! Don’t just take our word for it—we have the numbers to back it up, like 577,915 total blog views in 2023. And one blog outshone all the rest: Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) vs. PostgreSQL Comparison with 42,109 views. We love to see it!

If you haven’t read them yet, follow the links below to catch up on the other blog posts that rounded out the top 5.

Top 5 most popular blog posts: 

1. Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) vs. PostgreSQL Comparison 
2. PostgreSQL VACUUM and ANALYZE Best Practice Tips
3. The Complete Oracle to Postgres Migration Guide
4. Streaming Replication: A Step-By-Step Setup Guide
5. How to Secure PostgreSQL?

This Year’s Top Downloaded eBooks

But wait, there’s more! Blog posts aren’t the only kind of content that defined your year with EDB. You loved reading our eBooks and whitepapers too! Customers downloaded an impressive total of 2,268 whitepapers from our website in 2023. Your favorite was What is Polycloud? with 405 downloads. 

Top 5 most-downloaded eBooks and whitepapers:

1. What is Polycloud?
2. The Power of Postgres Extreme High Availability
3. The Complete Oracle to Postgres Migration Guide
4. How Oracle to Postgres Migration Transforms Businesses
5. Replacing Oracle with Postgres

Thank You For Being Our Friend

We’re all about community here at EDB. From the vibrant open source community that builds Postgres, to the customers and friends who connect with us on social media. Thanks for socializing with EDB on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. You engaged with our pages 87,400 times this year. We’re lucky to have friends like you! We also saw more than 1.13 million social media impressions this year, and we look forward to hearing from more of you in 2024 and beyond. 

The Most Popular 2023 EDB Webinars

Finally, we can’t wrap up our greatest hits without talking about webinars! You streamed a lot of our webinars this year. We counted 8,225 streams to be exact! But one came out on top: Postgres Query Optimizer with 1,176 streams this year. 

Want to catch up and binge-watch our webinar greatest hits? Here’s the playlist:

Top 5 most-streamed webinars: 

1. Postgres Query Optimizer
2. Breaking Up With Oracle
3. Beyond Joins and Indexes
4. Introducing EPAS 15 - The Most Secure Postgres
5. Data Analytics in the Cloud with Postgres Window Functions

We’re so glad to see that our articles and videos resonated so strongly with our EDB community. Because we’re #1 in Postgres, we’re always working hard to provide tools and information to help you get the most out of your favorite database. We wouldn’t have an EDB greatest hits without our loyal customers, so this blog post is not about celebrating our achievements; it’s about celebrating your engagement! Thanks for reading, watching and engaging with our content this year.

See you next year!