USE CASE: MODERNIZE LEGACY APPLICATIONS
Break free from legacy constraints to grow and innovate faster.
Escape the trap of legacy lock-in
Enterprises were traditionally built around commercial relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2 that locked them into monolithic, legacy applications for critical daily processes. These outdated apps limit innovation and are expensive, difficult to scale, and risk security and compliance. Today, organizations want to break free from legacy systems to tackle next-gen application development, which requires diverse data models and open standards that integrate with modern data stacks.
Modernize your applications
EDB Postgres® AI enables modern data infrastructure for next-gen application development within a hybrid, customer-controlled environment. Modernizing from legacy systems to EDB’s hardened PostgreSQL reduces costs and improves performance, availability, and security outcomes while enabling developers to leverage diverse data models for modern apps.
Hardened Postgres
Built-in, automated backups, recovery, activity logs, and user management features support apps that won’t go down, so you can leverage open source technologies for mission-critical applications.
Enhanced data models and pipelines
Leverage Postgres as a multi-model database with support for relational, document, key-value, time series, and vector data models, bringing analytics and AI closer to core, transactional data.
Flexible, developer-friendly features
EDB Postgres AI automates database management and ensures high-quality execution so developers can focus on building next-gen applications and adopting modern tools and technologies.
Migration tools
Easily migrate with a suite of tools including a migration AI Copilot, automatic migration assessments that prep your teams to migrate, and snapshot sync to enable the Postgres Lakehouse.
Eliminate legacy lock-in without refactoring legacy applications to work with Postgres. Focus your time on building new innovations.
Maximize ROI
Achieve enterprise-grade security in a sovereign, cost-effective environment that reduces TCO up to 80% versus legacy systems.
Support next-gen requirements
Break up monolithic applications while expanding deployment options, adopting technology compatible with modern data stacks, and accelerating AI and analytics application development with multi-model support – all with a unified platform.
Improve developer agility
Quickly adapt to changing market trends and get to market faster while EDB Postgres AI simplifies the management of hundreds of database clusters and enables up to 99.999% availability.
Minimize Tier 1 application impacts
Reduce application rewrites up to 95% and eliminate disruptions when migrating from legacy systems.
EDB Postgres AI enables legacy application modernization
Enable simple migration from legacy databases like Oracle to open, flexible, enterprise-grade Postgres, as EDB automates the complex tasks of schema and data conversions to reduce rewrites up to 95%. With a migration portal with AI-driven assistance, enable migrations in days (versus weeks or months), minimize downtime, and reduce TCO up to 80%.
Demo Video
Demo Video
Seamless Oracle to Postgres Migration with EDB Postgres AI
Seamless Oracle to Postgres Migration with EDB Postgres AI
Watch the DBA create a TDE-enabled Postgres cluster and resolve issues with AI-powered support.
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Modernization FAQs
Legacy applications are systems based on outdated commercial database technology but may still be crucial to day-to-day operations. They are often monolithic, meaning multiple components are combined into a single application.
Modern applications are those that use cloud-native technologies, like containers, and developer best practices. Modern applications are built to be agile and scalable to support the fast-paced nature of business today.
Modernizing legacy applications offers a way for businesses to keep their mission-critical operations running while enabling the advantages of newer platforms, tools, and technologies. By modernizing their legacy applications with EDB Postgres AI, organizations can seamlessly integrate with other modern technologies, leverage flexible, developer-friendly features, and align with the most up-to-date industry best practices.
Multi-model databases can store and process different data models. Postgres, through its extensions, is a multi-model database because it supports relational, key-value, document, and vector data.
Open standard technology can be used by anyone. This allows organizations to choose solutions based on specific challenges, rather than being locked into one company’s software or hardware. Open source helps reduce TCO since there are no licensing fees, lower the barriers for innovation, and increase interoperability with other tools.
Some key technologies used in application modernization are:
- Hybrid deployments: Some organizations can’t jump from traditional on-premises systems to the cloud due to security and compliance concerns. Modern applications can be built on top of the infrastructure that best fits the organization’s use case.
- Containers and microservices: Containers and microservices allows organizations to break down monoliths, which avoids bottlenecks of a single, central system, helping them develop quicker and more efficiently.
- Automation tools: Developers today need to quickly adapt to changing market trends. It’s increasingly important that modern applications are backed by platforms that streamline and automate operational tasks so that teams can sustain these apps at scale.