Market Perspectives

We are happy to share some insights about EDB drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

We recently published three Ventana Research 2023 Data Platforms Value Indexes, which evaluate technology vendors and products that provide individual and combined analytic and operational data platform support. At Ventana Research, we continue to believe that, for most use cases, there is a clear choice between analytic and operational data platforms to best meet your organization’s needs. We developed three technology assessment and buyers’ guides to focus on overall data platform requirements as well as specific analytic data platform and operational data platform use cases.

In all of our Value Indexes, we utilize a structured research methodology built on evaluation categories designed to reflect real-world criteria and derived from RFP responses and a vendor selection process for analytics and business intelligence. For each of the Value Indexes, we evaluated EDB and other vendors in seven categories: five relevant to the product — Adaptability, Capability, Manageability, Reliability and Usability — and two related to the vendor — TCO/ROI and Validation. To arrive at the Value Index rating for a given vendor, we weighted each category to reflect its relative importance in an RFP process, with the weightings based on our experience and on data derived from our market research, including our Benchmark Research on Analytics and Data.

EDB was founded decades ago with a focus on PostgreSQL, a popular open-source database that offers capabilities to support both operational and analytic workloads. The company’s primary offering is the EDB Postgres Advanced Server database, but it also offers the complementary EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager, EDB Postgres Distributed and EDB Postgres for Kubernetes products. In November 2021, it launched the EDB BigAnimal managed cloud database service.

In the overall Data Platforms Value Index, EDB was categorized as a Vendor of Merit, ranking 13th overall in this Value Index evaluation. It ranked 13th in Product Experience and eighth in Customer Experience, where it performed best in the Validation category. Its overall performance was impacted by its lower rankings in Usability and Manageability, which represent 25% of the weighting in the overall Value Index.

Our assessment finds that EDB could perform better by examining its performance in the Product Experience areas of Usability and Manageability, in particular by improving accessibility and business administration. In Capability, where it ranked 13th, EDB has the potential to make improvements by examining database administration functionality for schema management, as well as native support for data engineering and advanced analytics functionality.

In the Analytic Data Platforms Value Index, EDB was also categorized as a Vendor of Merit, ranking 14th overall in this Value Index evaluation. It ranked 14th in Product Experience, where it ranked best in the Reliability category. It ranked 11th in Customer Experience and ranked best in the Validation category.

EDB was also categorized as a Vendor of Merit in the Operational Data Platforms Value Index, ranking 18th overall in this Value Index evaluation. It ranked 18th in Product Experience, where it ranked best in the Reliability category. It ranked 10th in Customer Experience and ranked best in Validation.

This assessment was based on EDB’s data platform products generally available as of September 30, 2022.

Organizations should evaluate their data platform requirements for operational and analytic workloads to ensure the existing products and vendors are meeting their needs. If their current data platforms are not satisfying those requirements, they should consider whether EDB can help meet their needs.

This research-based index is the most comprehensive assessment of the value of data platforms in the industry. Technology buyers can learn more about how to use our Value Index by clicking here and included vendors that wish to learn more can click here. Click below to read the individual reports:

Data Platforms Value Index

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Operational Data Platforms Value Index