Flavors of PostgreSQL® and you: a deep dive

Did you know that the PostgreSQL® database ecosystem includes databases like AWS Aurora, Neon, TimescaleDB, AlloyDB Omni and more? PostgreSQL.org lists over 50 databases on its website as “Postgres derived”, and many of these are task-specific implementations.

In this deep dive session, we’ll go through the broader Postgres ecosystem, touch on some of the more popular implementations of Postgres, and help you decide what flavor of Postgres to choose for your next project.

Date: February 26, 2025

  • 7am PDT | 10am EDT | 3pm CET | 7:30pm IST
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Workshop hosts

Celeste Horgan

Developer Educator, Aiven

Celeste is a Developer Educator at Aiven, where she focuses on bringing delightful, and creative content to Aiven’s tens of thousands of users. In previous roles, she’s acted as a documentation partner and advisor to the CNCF’s portfolio of open source projects, as an approver and Code of Conduct Committee member in the Kubernetes open source project, and as a team lead in documentation teams across a number of companies. In 2020 she founded the Inclusive Naming Initiative. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, and she presents frequently for global leaders in open source projects about documentation best practices.

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Tibs

Developer Educator, Aiven

Tibs has spent most of their career as a software developer, working in digital mapping, embedded Linux, and backend cloud services. At the start of 2022, they moved to Aiven and Developer Relations, where they get to learn about cool stuff and help others understand how to use it.

They are fascinated with documentation and how it is written, and have spoken on the history of text markup, and on mechanisms for automated "linting" of text.

They have attended PyCon UK since its inception, and ran the Cambridge Python User Group (CamPUG) from 2007-2022.

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What will we cover?

  • An overview of the Postgres ecosystem: extensions to Postgres vs. Postgres derived databases
  • Licensing concerns when working with databases based on Postgres derived databases
  • Some of the major players, their technical differences, and which one to choose
    • Relational
    • Time-series
    • AWS Aurora and Neon
    • AlloyDB Omni
  • Managed Postgres and related: pros and cons

Who is this session good for?

  • People who know Postgres and are interested in more specific use cases
  • People who are potentially looking to grow their Postgres investment
  • People who want to learn more about the broader Postgres ecosystem and how all of its “derived” databases are related to Postgres, and what kind of techncial overlap there is

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