Interview with Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres

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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?

There is an expectation that more critical applications will rely on PostgreSQL. In that context high availability and scalability becomes critical to support the demands of these applications. We have worked with the community on improving the native capabilities of Postgres in the areas of replication and scalability and we see that journey as only starting, with many exciting possibilities still to be implemented. We also believe our continued focus on security positions Fujitsu as a key partner for organizations willing to embrace Postgres while complying with their security posture and audit policies.

There are other areas of growth that can't be ignored like multi-cloud and AI. On the multi-cloud side, we believe the investments being made on high availability and scalability are foundational for a true multi-cloud experience, combined with an enterprise grade Kubernetes operator. Finally, our approach to AI is very pragmatic and we are investing on how to support our clients on their AI journey, whether by supporting extensions or by integrating with other market leading solutions in this space.

What is your PostgreSQL centered product and what makes it unique?

Our product, Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres, is based on providing an enterprise ready version of PostgreSQL with a unique focus on security. We understand organizations of all sizes sometimes faces challenges when adopting OSS software. We address this by complementing PostgreSQL with our unique expertise and by supporting our customers’ implementations of OSS tools via a set of tools that that are fully backed by Fujitsu. We continue to provide unique features to enhance our customers’ experience with Postgres. Just to name a few of our features:

• Transparent Data Encryption - all data in Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres is encrypted, including stored data, data backed up to the file server, data mirrored on the secondary server, and network communications data
• Data masking - provides greater control over access to sensitive information. You can obscure select data returned from queries, making it available for reference without exposing the actual data, such as credit card numbers or security-sensitive information
• Mirroring Controller - monitors the ongoing performance of your database, network, and hardware notifying you if something is amiss. 

Which of your company's contributions to the PostgreSQL Project (code/community/conference)

We contribute to enhancing the logical replication solution. There are various features we have worked on over many years but from recent contributions the work related to upgrade of logical replication clusters, slot synchronization, and parallel apply of large transaction are some of our most significant contributions. This helps with major version upgrades, high availability, and the scalability aspect of PostgreSQL. We also contribute to community development by providing sponsorship and presenting papers to some of the key PostgreSQL events including, PGConf.dev in Canada, PostgreSQL Conference Germany, PGConf India, FOSSASIA PGDay in Thailand, PG Day Down Under in Australia and multiple events in America - PG Day Chicago, PGConf NYC and Postgres Conference San Jose.