Mastering the Challenges of PostgreSQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery

In recent years, we’ve seen an upturn in adoption of the open-source database engine PostgreSQL. Commercial databases like Oracle and SQL Server can become quite expensive as applications grow to massive scale. Oracle licensing is complex and very expensive. While we at DCAC still love SQL Server and it’s at the heart of our business, we do see the demand for PostgreSQL cropping up amongst clients. PostgreSQL is a solid database engine—I’ve built applications on it, however as economist Milton Friedman famously said, “there is no such thing as a free lunch.” If you talk to any database expert, you’ll