Enterprise PostgreSQL Buyer's Guide:

10 Hard-Earned Lessons from IT Leaders Who’ve Been There Before

You've made the strategic choice to adopt PostgreSQL—an excellent decision that promises greater flexibility, performance, and cost savings compared to proprietary alternatives. However, the path from decision to successful implementation is riddled with hidden mistakes that even experienced IT leaders can make.

Your organization must decide how to balance enterprise-grade features, flexibility, and long-term cost efficiency. The options seem straightforward, but each comes with trade-offs that can create long-term obstacles:

Proprietary PostgreSQL vendors offer enterprise enhancements, but they introduce licensing fees, vendor lock-in, and migration risks that limit flexibility.
Managed cloud services provide convenience, but they restrict performance tuning, security policies, and cost control, leading to unpredictable expenses as workloads grow.
Building and managing PostgreSQL in-house ensures full control, but demands deep expertise, continuous maintenance, and dedicated operational resources.

This is easier said than done. Many organizations underestimate the complexity of making the right choice, only to face unexpected outages, spiraling costs, and vendor dependencies that are difficult to unwind.

This guide distills years of hard-won lessons from experts. It reveals the ten most damaging mistakes enterprises make when deploying PostgreSQL and, more importantly, exactly how to sidestep them.