Postgres Professional - the company-developer of the Russian Postgres Pro DBMS based on the PostgreSQL DBMS .
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Base | 2015 |
Location | Moscow ( Russia ) |
Key figures | Oleg Bartunov , CEO; Ivan Panchenko, deputy. gene. directors; Alexander Korotkov, chief architect; Fedor Sigaev, Technical Director. |
Industry | Computer software |
Products | The Postgres Pro DBMS Family |
Number of employees | 70 |
Site | www.postgrespro.ru |
Activities
- Development of Postgres Pro and PostgreSQL DBMS and auxiliary tools for them.
- Round-the-clock technical support for PostgreSQL and Postgres Pro .
- Technical audit of information systems in relation to working with DBMS; consulting
- Assistance in migration from other DBMS.
- Educational activities in the field of DBMS.
History
Postgres Professional was founded on February 1, 2015 by Oleg Bartunov , Alexander Korotkov, Ivan Panchenko, Fyodor Sigaev and Anton Sushkevich. O. Bartunov, F. Sigaev and A. Korotkov are among the PostgreSQL Major Contributors [1] in the PostgreSQL project. F. Sigaev and A. Korotkov are committers (PostgreSQL Committers) [2] , that is, they have the right to accept patches to the PostgreSQL repository.
In February 2015, Postgres Professional held the first PGConf.Russia 2015 conference at Digital October. [3]
In 2015, Postgres Professional joined the Otechestvenny Soft software [4] . In the same year, a consortium of companies led by Postgres Professional took [5] the first place in the DBMS nomination at a competition of Russian development companies organized by the Ministry of Communications .
Since 2016 it releases Postgres Pro DBMS [6] ; in March of the same year, Postgres Pro DBMS was included in the Unified Register of Russian computer programs and databases (registration number 104) [7]
At the end of 2016, the Postgres Pro Standard 9.5.2.1 DBMS version received the FSTEC of Russia safety certificate.
In September 2017, Postgres Professional becomes the official partner of 1C [8] .
In January 2019, the FSTEC certificate also received the Postgres Pro Enterprise DBMS.
In February 2019 , 1C confirmed [9] compatibility of the 1C: Enterprise 8 platform with Postgres Pro Standard 10.6, Postgres Pro Enterprise 10.6 and Postgres Pro Enterprise 10.3.3 (version certified by FSTEC) on Windows, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Alt Linux, Rosa.
In early 2019, the company employed about 70 employees.
Postgres Professional and the PostgreSQL community
Postgres Professional gives part of the development of the code to the PostgreSQL community: for example, 66 patches from Postgres Professional were received in the PostgreSQL 11 repository. Postgres Professional has been organizing international conferences PGConf.Russia since 2015 ; participated in organizing a conference at the University of Kathmandu , Nepal , in 2018 . [10] . Postgres Professional employees translated the Russian PostgreSQL project documentation into Russian.
Educational and outreach activities
Postgres Professional has developed advanced training courses on PostgreSQL administration and application development.
On a non-commercial basis, employees of the company read courses 24 times, of which 17 - in the cities of Russia and 1 in Minsk , Belarus .
The company took part in writing and publishing textbooks and manuals:
- “PostgreSQL. Basics of the SQL language: studies. Handbook, E.P. Morgunov, ed. E. V. Rogova, P. V. Luzanova. BHV-Petersburg, 2018.
- “Basics of database technology: studies. allowance ”, B. A. Novikov, E. A. Gorshkova, ed. E.V. Rogova. DMK Press, 2019;
For acquaintance with PostgreSQL and Postgres a brochure “PostgreSQL for beginners” has been published, written by company employees P.Luzanov, E.Rogov and I.Levshin, Russian and English versions. The first edition was published in 2016 , the 5th - at the end of 2018 .
Employees of the company read free lecture courses on the subject of DBMS to students of Moscow State University and the Higher School of Economics .
Postgres Professional organized trips to Russia to the gurus of the global IT industry ( Steve Wozniak and Bruce Momjan ).
Products
- Postgres Pro Enterprise
- Postgres pro standard
- Postgres extensions, including:
- pg_probackup is a utility for managing backup and recovery of Postgres Pro database clusters;
- pg_pathman - utility for optimized partitioning of large and distributed databases;
- JsQuery - extends the functionality when working with the jsonb type;
- mamonsu is an active monitoring agent for Postgres Pro. Executed on the basis of zabbix ;
- pg_variables - allows you to define and use variables within user sessions.
Certification
Postgres Pro Standard and Postgres Pro Enterprise are certified by FSTEC according to the 5th class of protection against unauthorized access to information and by the 4th level of control over the absence of undeclared capabilities. [11] . Postgres Pro Standard has a certificate number 3637 (under the name Postgres Pro), Postgres Pro Enterprise - number 4063. Certified for this class of DBMS can be used to protect information in government information systems and automated control systems up to 1 security class, as well as providing up to 1 level of personal data protection in information systems for which threats of the 1st, 2nd or 3rd type are relevant.
Partnership
Postgres Professional has about 60 official partners. In February 2017, a partnership agreement was signed with 1C , which became a Postgres Pro distributor [12] . In November 2018, Galactica Corporation, the developer of ERP systems , announced support for Postgres Pro in its products. The Israeli company Postgres Miktzoanim , a partner of Postgres Professional, is engaged in the distribution and support of Postgres Pro in Israel .
Notes
- ↑ PostgreSQL major contributors .
- ↑ PostgreSQL committers
- ↑ PGConf.Russia 2015
- ↑ Site ARPP "Domestic Software"
- ↑ Vladislav Meshcheryakov. Who will create national OS and DBMS. The Ministry of Communications has decided on the winners. CNews (June 11, 2015). The appeal date is March 4, 2019.
- ↑ Alexander Lozovsky. Tasks at interviews # 211. Tasks from Postgres Professional and rewarding the winners from Kaspersky Lab . Hacker Magazine (August 11, 2016). The appeal date is March 4, 2019.
- ↑ Information about copyright holders of software
- ↑ 1C and Postgres Professional became partners
- ↑ 1C: Enterprise 8 supports new versions of Postgres Pro DBMS
- ↑ PGConf.Nepal 2018
- ↑ FSTEC of Russia
- ↑ Postgres Professional Product Catalog