Interview with CYBERTEC
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In which areas do you expect PostgreSQL to grow most and how does your company contribute to and benefit from that growth?
I think PostgreSQL will grow across all industries. PostgreSQL is everywhere and I think people have figured out how valuable this database is. At the end of the day everyone will benefit all around the world - not just us. But isn’t that the purpose of an Open Source database? To make sure everyone benefits from it?
What is your PostgreSQL centered product and what makes it unique?
We offer “full stack PostgreSQL” which means that we are not limited to a single solution. Our stack consists of …
CYBERTEC Scalefield: We offer a full Kubernetes based solution which allows you not just to fully automated PostgreSQL in a compliant and secure way. It offers automation, a graphical self service interface and many features one would expect from an on-premise cloud solution (which is of course also able to run in a public cloud). As part of Scalefield we also have a component called Scalefield Secure which offers compliance reporting for PostgreSQL, Oracle and a lot more. It covers the security and compliance side of things.
Then we have CYBERTEC PGEE (PostgreSQL Enterprise Edition) which comes with many features such as TDE (Data At Rest Encryption) and many other compliance related tools. This is important to enterprise customers which are in highly relevant sectors.
On the migration side we offer the CYBERTEC Migrator which is an excellent visual tool to handle everything related to Oracle to PostgreSQL migration including code conversion and a lot more.
Finally there are many other tools such as our low code platform CYPEX and many many Open Source repositories which we maintain and developed over the years.
What is your company's mission?
We ensure that everything people need to run and extend PostgreSQL is available. We offer “full stack PostgreSQL” allowing people to have a single point of contact to access the entire PostgreSQL ecosystem.
What makes your company a great place to work?
We are a pure PostgreSQL company - this is what we are and this is what we do. Everybody who likes technology, who is competent and willing to commit to a wonderful project is welcome.
Which of your company's contributions to the PostgreSQL Project (code/community/conference) are you most proud of?
Oh there are many. We recently managed to get two major patches into PostgreSQL. One is about repacking tables and a second one is about a major optimizer improvement which we have been working on for 10 years or so.
What feature in the last PostgreSQL version benefits your company most?
Oh, in fact there are too many to count. One has to keep in mind: Features are made for a reason and every feature therefore has a reason. Picking one is hard because PostgreSQL is used in a really diverse way and therefore it really depends on your use case.
Which PostgreSQL extension do you benefit from most, and why?
Clearly, pg_stat_statements … it just opens the door to finding all kinds of performance related issues. To me this is the single most important thing there is.