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EDB
Company blog · enterprisedb.com/blogprogrammingdata
EDB is the company blog at enterprisedb.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2009, 117 different Hacker News readers have linked it 193 times, most often “Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link EDB's blog for Postgres explanations, such as MVCC bloat compared with MySQL and full-page writes, and for tutorials. Many links point to product, download or job pages instead.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-07-26
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-04-12
- Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-10-17
- /postgres-plus-edb-blog/marc-linster/postgres-outperforms-mongodb-and-ushers-new-developer-reality3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-18
- /node/34413 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-16
- New Benchmarks Show Postgres Dominating MongoDB in Varied Workloads (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-05
- The Evolution of Logical Replication in PostgreSQL: A Firsthand Account3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-11
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-22
- /postgres-plus-edb-blog/marc-linster/postgres-outperforms-mongodb-and-ushers-new-developer-reality2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-04-08
- Rocks and Sand (capacity planning on Postgres)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-30
What Hacker News says?
No, many of these are specific to Postgres. I don't know of any other database that has Postgres's rewrite system called Rules. Also other databases handle mixed-case identifiers differently. PostgreSQL is one of the databases that adheres the SQL standard most closely, which makes you think that many of these things would apply to other databases. But that's just it. Databases follow the standard willy nilly, so th…
Comment linking /
on “Common mistakes in PostgreSQL”Submitted Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code as a story · 106 points
HN discussionMy previous company migrated to Postgres by using EnterpriseDB[1]. This allowed them to run existing Oracle data with PL/SQL as they were working on migrating it to the raw PostgreSQL. So where there is a will there's a way. [1] https://www.enterprisedb.com
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on “New in PostgreSQL 10”Submitted Comparison of Joins: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL as a story · 62 points
HN discussionDon't have experience with Rethink, but Mongo scalable? That's a joke right? Here how it compares: http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/themes/datastax-2014-08/f... The only values that has higher than rest are on page 13, except those are latency and lower is better. This paper shows clearly that Mongo doesn't scale. And even for single instance Mongo is slower than Postgres with JSON data: https://www.enterprisedb.c…
Comment linking /postgres-plus-edb-blog/marc-linster/postgres-outperforms-mongodb-and-ushers-new-developer-reality
on “RethinkDB Postmortem”Submitted Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison (2022) as a story · 31 points
HN discussionIt has a similar concept if you need MVCC (with InnoDB). It also has a concept of transaction IDs. And also need to clean them up (purge). They will both have table bloat if not done. Since details matter, there's a post that explains it far better than I could: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/mysql-vs-postgresql-part-2...
Comment linking /blog/mysql-vs-postgresql-part-2-vacuum-vs-purge
on “PostgreSQL 14”Submitted CloudNativePG: A New Open-Source Kubernetes Operator for Postgres as a story · 30 points
HN discussionHere, for example, https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgresql
Comment linking /downloads/postgresql
on “PostgreSQL 14”Submitted EnterpriseDB Announces Availability of Postgres Plus Cloud Database as a story · 20 points
HN discussionfwiw https://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-blog/marc-lin...
Comment linking /postgres-plus-edb-blog/marc-linster/postgres-outperforms-mongodb-and-ushers-new-developer-reality
on “RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience”Submitted Postgres – EnterpriseDB acquires 2nd Quadrant as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThat's very interesting. At the moment, PostgreSQL keeps all versions of all tuples in its heap files. Inserts, updates, and deletes all result in addition of new tuples to the heap, and the engine keeps track of which transactions can see which tuples. The vacuum process deletes tuples which are no longer needed, but in the meantime, there is bloat. zheap would keep only the latest version of each tuple in its heap…
Comment linking /blog/databases-different-approaches-mvcc
on “PostgreSQL 11 Released”Submitted Scaling Breakthrough: EPAS 17 Scales Twice as Well, Thanks PostgreSQL as a story · 13 points
HN discussionPostgres’ need (modulo running it on ZFS) for full-page writes [0], coupled with devs’ apparent need to use UUIDv4 everywhere - along with over-indexing - is a recipe to drag writes down to the floor, yes. 0: https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/impact-full-page-writes
Comment linking /blog/impact-full-page-writes
on “Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres”Submitted Fascinating Things You Probably Didn't Know PostgreSQL Can Do (2020) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHi, OP. First, congratulations on launching a product, and thank you for giving it strong copyleft! I ran it as directed, and it's pretty slick. I have some detailed comments on the database side of things that I hope you'll take seriously before trying to scale this. I've ran a distributed Postgres DB at scale for a well-known company that used `yjs` for precisely the same thing you're doing here, so I have some re…
Comment linking /blog/rocks-and-sand
on “Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative”Submitted Why PostgreSQL 17's Incremental Backup Feature Is a Game-Changer as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe team I'm on at EnterpriseDB is hiring experienced developers to work on a distributed Postgres product. One position in US, one in Europe. All remote. Email is in my profile if you'd like to chat. https://www.enterprisedb.com/careers/job-openings?gh_jid=593... https://www.enterprisedb.com/careers/job-openings?gh_jid=594...
Comment linking /careers/job-openings?gh_jid=5946592003
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Exploring PostgreSQL 17: New Features and Enhancements as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDatadog uses PostgreSQL. See [1]. [1]: http://www.enterprisedb.com/success-stories/postgresql-succe...
Comment linking /success-stories/postgresql-success-stories/datadog
on “PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS”Submitted Delightful, production-grade replication for Postgres as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHave you heard of Open Source? Government of France has. Enjoy the article. https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/france-takes-lead-new-open...
Comment linking /blog/france-takes-lead-new-open-source-front
on “Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B”Submitted Validating EDB Postgres Distributed Raft Consistency with Jepsen as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://www.enterprisedb.com/news/new-benchmarks-show-postgr...
Comment linking /news/new-benchmarks-show-postgres-dominating-mongodb-varied-workloads
on “I would like a job writing Haskell”Submitted Postgres Disaster Recovery with Kubernetes Volume Snapshots Using CloudNativePG as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI hadn't seen it prior reading/replying to your comment, but I thought it looked comparable to RDS as I skimmed http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/produ... I've not used Heroku's Postgres stuff, so no idea what it offers beyond that
Comment linking /products-services-training/products-overview/postgres-plus-cloud-database
on “Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup”Submitted Is psql's scripting language Turing complete? Or: Fibonacci in psql as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI saw this in the AWS marketplace (aws.amazon.com/marketplace) - http://www.enterprisedb.com/cloud-database/amazon no experience or affiliation, though.
Comment linking /cloud-database/amazon
on “Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup”Submitted Postgres 18 OAuth2 Authentication – Building a Custom OAuth2 Validator in Rust as a story · 4 points
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