USE CASE: HYBRID DBAAS
The automation and agility of cloud services, with the flexibility to deploy anywhere: public cloud, hybrid cloud, and bare metal.
Free yourself from complex hybrid management
Modern enterprises manage data across multiple clouds and on-premises deployments. Database administration is often undifferentiated heavy lifting that distracts operators and engineers from more value-oriented work, like improving app scalability and accelerating time to market. Today, organizations often turn to public cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings to drive operational efficiency, but these services have major limitations: they limit hybrid deployment flexibility, lock enterprises into costly cloud consumption patterns as they scale, and lack portability to other platforms — creating just another form of lock-in.
Meet the Hybrid Control Plane
EDB Postgres® AI combines the automation, scale, and simplicity of DBaaS with hybrid deployment flexibility and data sovereignty, so you can grow and innovate faster. EDB Postgres AI offers centralized management over enterprise data estates using the Hybrid Control Plane, a single software installation to deploy and manage EDB Postgres software and services. The Hybrid Control Plane enables database automation and end-to-end observability, with the freedom to deploy and manage sovereign databases in your environment of choice.
Deployment flexibility
Enable EDB Postgres AI in self-hosted, data sovereign environments – in public or private clouds, multi-cloud, on-premises, or as an integrated hardware appliance.
Database automation
Eliminate database administrative tasks with automated provisioning, backups, user management, point-in-time recovery, activity logs, and more, ensuring high quality execution at scale.
Single pane of glass
Advanced observability tools enhance monitoring and troubleshooting, with 200+ metrics supported, and tackle performance issues by isolating top problematic queries – all through a single, unified control plane.
Hardened Postgres
Built-in security and disaster recovery features support apps that won’t go down, so you can leverage open source technologies for mission-critical applications.
Spend less time on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of database administration to focus more on innovating as your business grows.
Grow with data sovereignty
Achieve data sovereignty and future-proof your data platform for growth and scale with a single control plane for hybrid environments.
Improve operational efficiency
Simplify management of hundreds of database clusters. Advanced automation and observability features keep databases secure, provide up to 99.999% availability, speed up app performance up to 8x, identify problems and bottlenecks up to 5x faster, and optimize ownership costs.
Develop apps faster
Accelerate modern application development with less complexity through integrated support for diverse data requirements.
EDB Postgres AI enables a hybrid DBaaS
With the Hybrid Control Plane, EDB Postgres AI automates time-consuming and expensive administrative functions like backups, point in time recovery, provisioning, activity logs, user management, and alerts and notifications. It offers database observability with 200+ metrics, so you can monitor, observe, and respond to issues in real time across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Demo Video
Demo Video
Hybrid DBaaS: Cluster Upgrade, Workload Testing, and Failover Simulation with EDB Postgres AI
Hybrid DBaaS: Cluster Upgrade, Workload Testing, and Failover Simulation with EDB Postgres AI
Watch how EDB Postgres AI ensures seamless high availability and cloud-like efficiency.
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Hybrid DBaaS FAQs
DBaaS, or database-as-a-service, is a model where the database provider performs all or most of the administrative tasks and maintenance of the database and operating system. The user can then focus on utilizing the database. This model is typically only available in the cloud. Key characteristics include:
- Cloud infrastructure hosting
- Automation of database administration tasks like monitoring and access control
- Self-service capabilities for other database lifecycle operations (backups, patching)
EDB Postgres AI can be used as a hybrid DBaaS, unlike other DBaaS solutions that can only manage cloud databases. Some key differentiators are:
- Hybrid deployment flexibility – organizations are not limited to cloud to have the DBaaS experience
- Support for and enhancements to various Postgres extensions
- Built-in observability across all your Postgres workloads
- Easy management and administration, including scaling, updating, creating backups, rolling updates, and database encryption
- Centralized data access, which simplifies data management and enhances security and consistency
DBaaS offerings are typically for cloud services only. With EDB Postgres AI, however, you can deploy on the infrastructure of your choice – public cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises.
Yes, you can deploy EDB Postgres AI on your existing infrastructure.
Some key benefits of a hybrid DBaaS include:
- Performance and availability
- Faster app development
- Operational efficiency
- Security and compliance
Using a hybrid DBaaS puts power into the hands of developers. EDB Postgres AI makes data management, administration, and access easy. This helps free up time for DBAs so they can focus on mission-critical tasks. This is also helpful for developers who must scale, update, back up, monitor, and secure their databases without DBA oversight. With less time and complexity spent on these tasks, they can focus more on building apps that solve real business challenges. Plus, Postgres is developers’ favorite database – EDB supports various Postgres extensions and enhances them with enterprise-grade features, enabling the use of open source technologies for mission-critical applications.
If you are in an industry with highly regulated data that must remain on-premises, like finance, healthcare, or government, you should consider a hybrid DBaaS so you can leverage the security of dedicated deployments with the cost and agility benefits of cloud. A hybrid DBaaS can work for any industry, though – companies who deploy Postgres on multiple environments can consider EDB Postgres AI to help consolidate complex database environments and simplify management, allowing their teams access to data without complexity.