Why enterprises are moving from Oracle to Azure Database for Postgres | Saurabh Modi | Ignite 2019

As companies evolve to their digital transformation, many also choose to modernize their data estate to better fit their elastic cloud-centric architecture. We are seeing a growing trend for enterprises who have historically relied on Oracle to move to a more flexible, lower cost and cloud-centric database architecture. Many of these are selecting Azure Postgres, particularly for transactional and low-latency business analytics. This session explores why customers are making this choice: the benefits of this move, as well as several business/technology strategies for making the move successful.

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1. Classified as Microsoft Confidential Why Enterprises are moving from Oracle to Azure Database for PostgreSQL
2. Classified as Microsoft Confidential Shyam Pitchaimuthu Product Manager, ECM
3. Classified as Microsoft Confidential Migration journey
4. Classified as Microsoft Confidential Downtime Back online
5. Classified as Microsoft Confidential PostgreSQL is more popular than ever loved wanted https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2019&utm_content=launch-blog https://db-engines.com/en/blog_post/76 https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/system/PostgreSQL DBMS of the Year DB-Engines’ ranking of PostgreSQL popularity PostgreSQL is more popular than ever
6. Classified as Microsoft Confidential PostgreSQL is more popular than ever Why PostgreSQL? Open source Proven resilience & stability enterprise-ready • Extensible and tooling Rich feature set • Rich indexing and data types, including geospatial
7. Classified as Microsoft Confidential Azure Database for PostgreSQL is available in two deployment options Single Server Fully-managed, single-node PostgreSQL Example use cases • Apps with JSON, geospatial support, or full-text search • Transactional and operational analytics workloads • Cloud-native apps built with modern frameworks Hyperscale (Citus) High-performance Postgres for scale out Example use cases • Scaling PostgreSQL multi-tenant, SaaS apps • Real-time operational analytics • Building high throughput transactional apps Enterprise-ready, fully managed community PostgreSQL with built-in HA and multi-layered security
8. Classified as Microsoft Confidential M A N A G E D C O M M U N I T Y V E R S I O N Focus on your apps by leaving the management and patching of your infrastructure and database to an enterprise- ready cloud service with: • Automatic updates • Automatic security fixes • Automatic new feature updates MySQL: 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0 (public preview) PostgreSQL: 9.5, 9.6, 10, and 11 MariaDB: 10.2
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10. Classified as Microsoft Confidential Azure Database for PostgreSQL AskAzureDBforPostgreSQL@service.microsoft.com Azure Database Migration Guide