Since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, developers have been moving away from MySQL to community-developed alternatives such as MariaDB and even PostgresSQL, the long-time underdog of the database world. EnterpriseDB founder and CEO Ed Boyajian is an open source veteran; he believes PostgresSQL has finally crossed the chasm to the enterprise mainstream. 

And Sean Doherty, Vice President of Business Development at EnterpriseDB, said that the industry has really seen a kind of renaissance for PostgresSQL over the last year or so. “It’s really the only open-source relational database option for the enterprise,” Doherty told theCUBE cohosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante during a HP Discover 2013 interview in June.

Virtual private cloud announcement

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Boyajian’s company, EnterpriseDB, is commercializing the platform and taking the fight to the cloud with Postgres Plus Cloud Database, its hosted service with updates that the company announced today. EnterpriseDB, a provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and Oracle database compatibility solutions, said they have expanded their Postgres Plus Cloud Database to support Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud feature. This gives users greater control and security as well as lets them enable hybrid clouds. EnterpriseDB said this also enhances security for the enterprise workloads that users are supporting. 

The company also announced today that this latest version of Postgres Plus Cloud Database is now available in Amazon’s Sydney Region. That means less latency for users in Australia and New Zealand, who also benefit from the ability to store business information within their local jurisdictions.

For added privacy, customers can now deploy the platform as a Virtual Private Cloud, with an isolated network and customizable security policies. “Postgres Plus Cloud Database gave us the performance and reliability we needed,” said John Holland, CEO of music collaboration firm WholeWorldBand. “We need secure communications between our network and our database in the cloud and, by using the new virtual private cloud compatibility from EnterpriseDB, we’re able to contain our environment.”

Postgres Plus Cloud Database can run both vanilla PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server, a commercial version of the project that adds features such as point-in-time recovery and automated backups. The same capabilities have been available in Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) since it was updated to support PostgreSQL last November, along with replication across multiple Availability Regions and provisioned IOPS. But EnterpriseDB still sets itself apart with Oracle Database compatibility, which it says is a major selling point for large organizations that still keep a large chunk of their mission-critical data in relational deployments.

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Suzanne Kattau contributed to this story.