Pgedge Launches First Fully Distributed Edge Database Based on Standard Postgresql

pgEdge,emerged from stealth and launched the first fully distributed database optimized for the network edge based on the standard and popular open source PostgreSQL database.  Concurrently the company also announced $9M in a seed financing round led by Sands Capital Ventures and Grotech Ventures.

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For application developers and database architects looking to deploy low latency and/or high availability applications that need to be globally distributed, pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL is a multi-active (multi-master) distributed database system. For the first time presentation, compute functions and the world’s most popular open source relational database can all be deployed at or close to the network edge, providing reduced data latency, better customer experiences, ultra high availability, and a way to address data residency requirements without application code changes.

For current users of PostgreSQL who need a simpler approach to high availability, pgEdge provides great flexibility to manage application workloads and architect for rapid failover given every node can take both read and write traffic. While designed to work in edge deployments across many nodes, pgEdge also functions well running across just a few cloud regions to provide applications with lower latency, automated failover support and disaster recovery capabilities.

“We founded pgEdge to provide an open Postgres-based distributed database platform to meet the demands of today’s modern applications: always on, always global, and super responsive,” said Phillip Merrick, co-founder and CEO of pgEdge, Inc.

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pgEdge Use Cases and Benefits
E-commerce companies, SaaS companies and large enterprises can apply pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL to solve some of their toughest technology challenges. In particular:

• E-commerce and SaaS companies can reduce long webpage load times and improve customer experiences by placing database copies closer to their users. 
  
  
• Major enterprises can save money by reducing their dependency on expensive proprietary databases while retaining ultra high availability and distributed capabilities.
  
  
• Companies struggling to meet international data residency requirements can use pgEdge’s data residency features to “geo-shard” their database and keep locally generated data local while sharing other data globally. This also supports geographic scaleout where a monolithic database architecture is hitting up against performance limits.

“For leading e-commerce companies like ours, pgEdge is a game changer and will give us fast page loads and a smooth customer experience regardless of where our customer is located,” said David Ting, CTO of Zenni Optical.  “Additionally, pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL can give our engineers a solid foundation for building a new generation of e-commerce applications by allowing the developers to develop on native Postgres, yet have the advantages of a modern distributed data store.”

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