Interview with Data Egret
Any views or opinions represented or expressed in this interview belong solely to the interviewee and do not neccessarily represent those of the PGConf.EU 2024 organization, PostgreSQL Europe, or the wider PostgreSQL community, unless explicitly stated.
- What is your PostgreSQL centred product and what makes it unique?
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PostgreSQL is frequently referred to as “the world’s most advanced open source relational database” and at Data Egret we help our clients to unleash its full potential.
While there is a plethora of database solutions out there - from various Postgres forks to alternative commercial databases, we focus on “vanilla” Postgres.
First of all, because it provides the benefit of transparency to our clients - they know what’s in the pipeline from the development standpoint; second - because they don’t need to pay for licence and thus have control over their budget; and finally - because they know that they have the freedom to choose any vendor they want, so they get best specialists in the industry.
We are passionate about Postgres, and our involvement in the community helps us better understand the direction that Postgres takes, enabling us to be more strategic in planning our clients’ installations.
The manageable size of our team and the high level of expertise of each of our DBAs allow us to be more flexible in providing customers with tailored solutions. Our clients have allocated DBAs who work on their projects, keeping their specific context in mind when responding to their questions, ensuring they never receive a generic response from us.
- Which PostgreSQL extension do you benefit from most, and why?
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pg_stat_statements has long been our go to extension and is used with each and every client. It’s one of our key tools for identifying performance bottlenecks and helps us to optimise query performance, make informed decisions on indexing, and enhance overall database efficiency.
PostGIS - is a unique postgres extension that adds support for geographic objects, transforming the database into a spatial database for GIS applications. With its ability of storage, retrieval, and analysis of geographic data, PostGIS is often used by our clients who have projects requiring spatial data management.
- In which areas do you expect PostgreSQL to grow most and how does your company contribute to and benefit from that growth?
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The ever changing landscape of data management provides fertile ground for PostgreSQL on multiple levels.
The continued enhancement of performance and scalability features makes PostgreSQL an even more compelling choice for enterprises dealing with large and complex datasets. Pgvector with its efficiency provides an answer to the ever growing need for storage, retrieval and processing of data in turn allowing to ease the process of app development.
We believe that with Postgres’ robustness, extensibility and speed of data processing will remain at forefront among available database alternatives. As Postgres support is our key service, this is a positive outlook for us as a company.
- What makes you want to attend the PGConf.DE conference?
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PGConf.DE provides us an opportunity to better understand our clients’ needs and attract those who would benefit from our experience and Postgres know-how. It also allows us to give back to the community by sharing our knowledge - at our booth and with our talks. This year in addition to sponsoring this biggest PostgreSQL event in Germany we also have a community-focused talk.
And last but not least, it allows us to get to know our clients in Germany, meet our friends and fellow Postgres community members, with whom we frequently interact, but rarely see each other face to face as part of our community commitments.