[ANNOUNCE] CHAR(16) - Just a few days to go
CHAR(16) is just days away, with the conference taking place December 6th and an optional training day December 7th. The conference theme is 'Scalability for Business', with a strong line-up of subject matter experts covering this topic in their selected talks. Check out the website for details on the agenda and speakers: http://charconference.org/ If you've not already secured your place, there's still time to register at http://charconference.org/ Training sessions are close to being sold out so we recommend if you want to attend to book very soon. Training day course options: Course 1: PostgreSQL Replication & Upgrades Course 2: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Course 3: Postgres-XL Each course is a full day, held at the same venue as the conference. For more details and to book, visit http://charconference.org/ We hope to see as many of you as possible in New York next week. -- Howard Rolph - Marketing Tel: +44 870 766 7756 <http://www.2ndquadrant.com/> http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, RemoteDBA, Training & Services
[ANNOUNCE] CHAR(16) - Scalability for Business Conference
CHAR(16) is an international conference to celebrate and showcase the significant developments the leading PostgreSQL engineering teams have made in the areas of Clustering, High Availability and Replication. This year's CHAR conference will take place in New York, December 06, 2016 (with an additional training day on December 07) and will bring together the most prominent organizations, thought leaders and contributors to database engineering and science, to present and discuss this highly important topic. Call for Papers Call for papers is now open. Please complete the form at http://charconference.org/ (under 'Speakers'). The closing date for submissions is midnight (EDT) September 30, 2016. We're looking for innovative, creative, visionary and may be even disruptive presentations on the theme of 'Scalability for Business'. The mission of the event is to provide a platform for speakers to demonstrate the significant role database science and development plays in the modern economy. The topic is broad and has scope to approach a paper from many aspects, to appeal to an audience who are technical or technically aware and want to lean about how experts in our industry are addressing real-world challenges in database design, data management, data access and storage. Sponsor CHAR(16) Sponsoring CHAR(16) presents a unique opportunity for your organization to play an influential role in this special conference. Sponsors can expect direct engagement with the delegates through exhibiting, brand awareness through prominent logo placements, and positive association with the likely media attention created by a successful event. Request a copy of the our sponsorship prospectus at http://charconference.org/ (under 'Sponsors'). Training Day An additional (and optional) training day is organized for December 07 covering three topical subjects. More details at http://charconference.org/ Tickets Early bird tickets are on sale now http://charconference.org/ -- Howard Rolph - Marketing Tel: +44 870 766 7756 <http://www.2ndquadrant.com/> http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, RemoteDBA, Training & Services
[ANNOUNCE] pglogical announced
2ndQuadrant is pleased to announce the availability of pglogical, the next generation in replication systems for PostgreSQL. pglogical offers Logical Replication as a PostgreSQL extension, which provides the flexibility of trigger-based replication with the efficiency of log-based replication. This ground-breaking new technology has benefits for many key use cases: * UPGRADEUpgrade PostgreSQL from 9.4 to 9.5, without downtime * SCALE OUT Copy all or a selection of database tables to other nodes in a cluster * AGGREGATE Accumulate changes from sharded database servers into a Data Warehouse * INTEGRATE Feed database changes in real-time to other systems * PROTECT Provide backup or high availability for clusters, replacing earlier technologies Existing PostgreSQL users will find the efficiency of pglogical particularly exciting with preliminary testing demonstrating a significant increase in transaction throughput (without lag) over other replication methods. For example, pglogical performed up to 5 times faster than Slony and Londiste3 on OLTP workloads using pgBench. For more details and access to binary packages for both the current stable release PostgreSQL 9.4 and the soon to be announced PostgreSQL 9.5 version visit http://2ndquadrant.com/pglogical -- Howard Rolph <http://www.2ndquadrant.com/> http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, RemoteDBA, Training & Services <> -- Sent via pgsql-announce mailing list (pgsql-announce@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-announce
[ANNOUNCE] Alpha Release of 2ndQuadrant Unified Data Analytics (2UDA)
2ndQuadrant is pleased to announce the alpha release of a new client platform for business intelligence - 2UDA (pronounced 'tudor'). 2UDA is a data analytics application suite that unifies databases, spreadsheets, data mining and data visualisation in one seamless desktop installer. Available to download now, 2UDA is packaged and ready to install with a choice of operating systems: Linux, OSX and Windows at http://2ndquadrant.com/2uda Although primarily aimed at Data Analysts and Data Scientists, we encourage trial participation from developers and DBAs at this stage of the product development, to help us improve the function and user experience for all users. More details on 2UDA at http://2ndquadrant.com/2uda -- Howard RolphWorldwide Marketing Manager Tel: +44 870 766 7756 http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, RemoteDBA, Training Services
[ANNOUNCE] BDR 0.9.0 released
2ndQuadrant is delighted to announce the release of BDR 0.9.0, introducing some significant new features and enhancements to this open source PostgreSQL replication solution. These include: . Dynamic SQL-level configuration of connections between nodes . Joining new nodes no longer requires restarting all nodes . Easy node removal . UDR (Uni-Directional Replication) . Replication Sets . Documentation expanded and moved into the source tree More details on each of these improvements are explained at http://bdr-project.org/docs/0.9.0/release-0.9.0.html http://bdr-project.org/docs/0.9.0/release-0.9.0.html One of the most significant enhancements in the latest release is the introduction of Dynamic Configuration, which eliminates the need to restart any of the nodes during the node join or removal process, and cluster configuration can be done via plain SQL interfaces. 0.9.0 also features Replication Sets for the first time. Replication Sets allow admins to specify sets of tables that each node should receive changes on. It is now possible to exclude tables that are not of interest to a particular node, or to include only a subset of tables for replication to a node. Replication sets can be used for data distribution, for data integration and for limited sharding. Introducing UDR With this release we're also announcing a lighter version of BDR called UDR (Uni-Directional Replication) which brings the master-slave logical replication solution for the unmodified release of PostgreSQL 9.4. With UDR you get the same performance of native logical replication as BDR (as it does not require any triggers).There is also no need to run and monitor external deamons because it runs inside the PostgreSQL server itself. UDR brings all the advantages of logical replication like replication sets or the ability to use temporary or unlogged tables on the receiving side but with no query cancels for replication. This makes reporting from read-replicas much easier. These latest enhancement bring even greater flexibility to users looking for an efficient method to manage distributed multi-node PostgreSQL databases. For more details about the BDR Project, including links to documentation, packages, manuals and a start-up guide, visit http://2ndquadrant.com/bdr http://2ndquadrant.com/bdr BDR provides asynchronous multi-master logical replication. This means that you can write to any server and the changes will, after they have been committed, be sent row-by-row to all the other servers that are part of the same BDR group. BDR offers a far more efficient method of handling schema changes safely with a lower overhead than trigger based solutions. -- Howard RolphWorldwide Marketing Manager Tel: +44 870 766 7756 http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, RemoteDBA, Training Services
[ANNOUNCE] CHAR(14)
The annual international PostgreSQL community conference 'CHAR(14)', focusing on Clustering, High Availability and Replication, is being held near London, UK on July 8, 2014. Main sponsors 2ndQuadrant are joined by Translattice, together presenting the important new technologies of Bi Directional Replication (BDR), Logical Replication and Postgres-XL. We also have speakers from the Slony Project and Bloomberg, amongst others. BDR, an async multimaster solution, is due to be announced in more detail at the conference. This will be the first opportunity to understand how BDR works and understand what implementation options are available - directly from the developers. For more details and to book your place at CHAR(14) visit http://char14.info/ Training is also available in conjunction with the conference, with a special 40% discount for CHAR(14) attendees. These one day courses will cover: * PostgreSQL 9.4 Administration - Simon Riggs and Gianni Ciolli - July 7 * PostgreSQL Bi-Directional Replication (BDR) - Andres Freund and Simon Riggs - July 10 Training can be booked at http://char14.info/, selecting the appropriate course links at the bottom of the homepage. --
[ANNOUNCE] New 'carrier-grade' PostgreSQL Support Service launched
2ndQuadrant has launched a 'carrier-grade' support service for companies who require absolute mission-critical incident protection. The company has decided to offer this level of service commitment to support the rapidly growing adoption of PostgreSQL by enterprises requiring the highest level of support services. This new service, branded Platinum Production Support, provides the additional reassurance of a guaranteed 15-minute (human) response time, 4-hour workaround, and a fix within 24 hours for PostgreSQL production databases - with 24/7 coverage. 2ndQuadrant has an excellent track record of recovering databases for companies of all sizes, having provided 24/7 production support for over 8 years. Simon Riggs, CTO of 2ndQuadrant, said, More of our major clients from financial, telecoms and internet-based sectors are increasingly requiring extraordinary levels of up-time to avoid the potentially significant costs of downtime. With the rise in PostgreSQL databases at the heart of these mission-critical operations, we've launched this new service to ensure that organisations have the best support available, and equally to provide reassurance in their choice of database. The Platinum service complements our popular Gold service, providing clients-where every minute of downtime counts-with the reassurance they need. PostgreSQL is becoming a default choice for many leading corporations and public sector organisations, who can see the value in open source products and the benefits of reducing the costs of fee-based database licences. 2ndQuadrant's launch of this level of support heralds new expectations of PostgreSQL, and helps dismiss the fears amongst the sceptics that an open source database might be a higher-risk choice. Platinum Production Support is available now from 2ndQuadrant. Find out more at 2ndQuandrant.com/en/support -- Howard Rolph http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training Services
[ANNOUNCE] PGDay UK 2013 is now open for registration.
PGDay UK 2013 is now open for registration. PGDay UK is back! Reserve your place at this year's UK PostgreSQL User Group community conference. Registration is now open at http://postgresqlusergroup.org.uk http://postgresqlusergroup.org.uk/ Kindly supported by 2ndQuadrant and EnterpriseDB, PGDay is run for the Postgres community to come together to gain new levels of understanding, through presentations and discussions. Learn from some of the leading experts in the field to get the very latest information and news on developments. The conference will cover the core topics you need to be successful with PostgreSQL, and provide you with an opportunity to discuss and explore ideas with fellow users. This year's conference takes place at the elegant Horwood House, Milton Keynes, with easy access from London and major airports (around 1.5 hours by train from Heathrow, Stansted Luton Airports). Reserve your place today by visiting the PGDay UK website: http://postgresqlusergroup.org.uk http://postgresqlusergroup.org.uk/ Howard Rolph 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndquadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training Services
