April 8 2025
Interview 2025

Postgres Professional: Global PostgreSQL Leader with 30+ Years of Expertise

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Andrey Fleyta 
Deputy CEO and Co-founder, Postgres Professional

 

Postgres Professional is a leading global contributor to PostgreSQL, backed by 30+ years of hands-on experience in DBMS development. It delivers exceptional technical support and tackle the most complex PostgreSQL challenges.
Postgres Professional stands among the world’s top contributors to PostgreSQL, backed by three decades of hands-on DBMS expertise. It provides exceptional technical support and solves the most complex PostgreSQL challenges.
““With deep knowledge and expertise, we have built Postgres Pro—a high-performance, enterprise-grade database management system with multiple features tailored for large enterprises,” says Andrey Fleyta, Deputy CEO and Co-founder, Postgres Professional. “Today, over 3,000 companies worldwide trust Postgres Pro to power their critical information systems.” 


Key Highlights
3,000+ enterprise clients globally
15+ products for high-load systems
30 years of PostgreSQL core development experience
No. 1 among non-American PostgreSQL contributors (EDB ranking)
100+ patches contributed to PostgreSQL annually


POWERING BUSINESSES WITH CUTTING-EDGE DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Founded by PostgreSQL Major Contributors Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, along with partners Ivan Panchenko and Andrey Fleyta, the Postgres Professional team includes the authors of PostgreSQL’s groundbreaking technologies -
GiST, GIN, and SP-GiST access methods
Full-text search and KNN indexing
NoSQL features (HStore, JSONB)
Extensions for fuzzy search, tree structures, and arrays
As a top 3 global force shaping PostgreSQL’s future, the company drives community-led innovation through conferences, free educational resources, and open collaboration. 


ENTERPRISE-GRADE SOLUTIONS FOR LARGE BUSINESSES
The company’s products provide end-to-end database management solutions tailored for enterprise businesses: OLTP and OLAP DBMS, database machines, Postgres Pro Enterprise Manager graphical platform, DBaaS, tools for simplified migration and many more.
Postgres Pro Enterprise — Its flagship DBMS with over 100 innovative features for large corporations, industrial enterprises, and government institutions with complex IT infrastructures and extensive data volumes. Leading companies in the oil & gas, financial, and public sectors are already leveraging Postgres Pro Enterprise for their critical operations. The DBMS ensures maximum reliability and is built to tackle complex industrial challenges.
Postgres Pro Standard —  Featuring 40+ key innovations, the system supports table partitioning, enhanced full-text search, covering indexes, pg_probackup, pgpro_pwr extension, the PPEM GUI platform, and other advanced capabilities.
Postgres Pro Shardman is intended to enable horizontal scaling of online transaction processing (OLTP) databases while preserving the strong ACID semantics. Shardman provides strong ACID guarantees, compatibility with Postgres Pro Enterprise, several clusters support, transparent horizontal scaling without a need in adopting NoSQL DBMS, built-in support of replication with no single point of failure, with any node being able to become coordinator that requires no system shut down and prevents any data loss; сapacity of up to 100 cluster nodes.
Postgres Pro Machine is a performative data base machine for highload systems. The deep optimization of the Postgres Pro Enterprise core for the hardware platform has achieved the highest performance and synchronous replication with minimal delays.
Key Postgres Pro Machine advantages include Integrated hardware and software, high-throughput low-latency interconnect, special synchronization of the nodes, redeveloped nodes communication and replication and RDMA.
PPEM is a powerful graphical platform designed to simplify the management of Postgres Pro databases. It helps database administrators efficiently handle routine tasks, monitor system health, diagnose issues, and optimize database performance.