pgEdge Launches Enterprise Postgres Distribution and Transitions to Full Open Source Licensing

pgEdge, the leading open source enterprise Postgres company, announced two major milestones: the release of pgEdge Enterprise Postgres and the company's full transition to an open source licensing model for its distributed Postgres components and future Postgres-based technologies. This expansion allows organizations to leverage both distributed and non-distributed PostgreSQL applications while maintaining full compatibility with standard PostgreSQL.

pgEdge Enterprise Postgres represents an enterprise-grade PostgreSQL distribution built, packaged and supported by pgEdge, providing organizations with the reliability, manageability, and enterprise-class support required for scaling PostgreSQL across demanding workloads. The distribution includes high availability for both distributed and non-distributed workloads, full support for PostgreSQL v16, v17, and soon v18, along with enterprise-ready extensions including pgAudit, pgBackrest, pgBouncer, PostGIS, and pgVector.

Concurrently, pgEdge announced that all pgEdge Distributed Postgres components are now fully open source, licensed under the standard PostgreSQL License approved by the Open Source Initiative. This includes the Spock multi-master logical replication extension, Large Object Logical Replication (LOLOR) extension, and Snowflake Sequences, all available on https://github.com/pgEdge. Previously released under the pgEdge Community License, these projects now operate under one of the most permissive open source licenses in the industry.

Phillip Merrick, Co-founder and CEO of pgEdge, stated that customers requested enterprise-class Postgres support for their non-distributed workloads, and the company responded to market demand for fully standard, fully open source Postgres solutions. Dave Page, VP of Engineering at pgEdge and PostgreSQL Core Team member, emphasized the company's commitment to supporting open source software and contributing to the PostgreSQL ecosystem through this licensing transition.

pgEdge Enterprise Postgres VM Edition is available immediately as part of a paid subscription, which includes tested builds, security updates, and 24x7x365 enterprise support. The container edition with support for Kubernetes Operator will be available in Q4, with packages supported on various operating systems including Red Hat Enterprise Linux v9 and v10, and derivatives including Rocky, AlmaLinux, and Oracle Enterprise Linux. Support for Ubuntu and Debian will follow later in Q3, with optional services including dedicated Forward Deployed Engineer support already trusted by Global 2000 and major government customers.