Overview
Managed PostgreSQL: Scale, security, resiliency
PostgreSQL is an object-relational SQL database that employs indexable JSON, publish and subscribe functions and drivers.
IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL, our PostgreSQL database-as-a-service offering, lets teams spend more time building with high availability, backup orchestration, point-in-time-recovery (PITR) and read replica with ease.
Use cases
Web and mobile apps
Web and mobile apps
Quickly build engaging, scalable cross-platform enterprise applications and connect a PostgreSQL cloud database deployment to a Kubernetes app. PostgreSQL’s object-relational, highly customizable database makes it an ideal choice for developing web and mobile applications.
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Business intelligence
Business intelligence
Implement the extensive analytics capabilities of PostgreSQL to transform data into actionable business insight. Data from multiple sources can be transformed into multidimensional formats to build sophisticated analytics applications or easily visualize and derive insights from your organizational data. With rich features to support data pipeline, ETL and data analysis, PostgreSQL is an ideal choice for analytics infrastructure.
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Machine learning and AI platform
A unified data and AI platform
Unleash extensive productivity by integrating PostgreSQL with IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, which allows additional customer insights and an edge from data that already exists in the organization. A game-changer providing you one of the best ways to work with data.
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Database consolidation
Database consolidation
Move your existing databases to IBM Cloud while also consolidating license costs, retiring servers and cleaning up database sprawl.
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Features
Powerful. Customizable. Open source.
Fully managed PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL as a service means IBM manages point-in-time backups, read replicas, logging, monitoring, scaling, hardware setup and software patching.
Highly available
PostgreSQL deployments are built for high availability, using multiple availability zones for a 99.99% SLA. Access is routed through a single endpoint.
Advanced security
Data is encrypted at rest and in motion. IBM® Key Protect provides bring-your-own-key (BYOK) encryption. Compliant with SOC 2 Type 2, PCI, HIPAA and GDPR.
Scale effortlessly
Scale disk and RAM independently to fit your application needs or use autoscaling. Add read replicas to your PostgreSQL deployments to offload traffic.
Automation aware
Get to global scale with integrated, infrastructure-as-code tools, such as IBM Cloud Schematics with Terraform and Red Hat® Ansible® support at no additional charge.
Flexible options
Separately scale disk, RAM and vCPUs for each PostgreSQL deployment. There’s no need to migrate instance classes to accommodate growth. Pay hourly.
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