EDB Postgres
Unleashing AI in Postgres for Petabyte Scale
- Also known as
- edb-postgres
What is EDB Postgres?
EDB Postgres AI is a sovereign data and AI platform built on open source PostgreSQL, offering analytics, agentic AI capabilities, and distributed high-availability deployment.
What EDB Postgres does
The capabilities that matter for relational databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SQL model
- Full SQL
- ACID transactions
- Full
- Highest isolation level
- -
- Consistency
- -
- Horizontal scale
- Natively distributed
- Replication
- -
- Automatic failover / HA
- ✓
- Deployment
- Managed
- Serverless / scale-to-zero
- -
- Wire compatibility
- Postgres protocol
- Extensions / plugins / UDFs
- ✓
- Licence class
- Source-available (BSL/SSPL)
- JSON / document support
- ✓
- Geo / spatial
- Extension
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
EDB Postgres alternatives
Other relational databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for EDB Postgres, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 58 | 17.00 | 982.8 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 80 | 12.00 | 960.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 50 | 18.00 | 900.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 10.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 34 | 7.00 | 240.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Github Activity | 0 | 20.00 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 20.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 0 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 65 | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"managed","geo_spatial":"extension","extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"license_class":"source_available","horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","acid_transactions":"full","automatic_failover":true,"wire_compatibility":"postgres"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Python | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 36 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |