Azure Database for PostgreSQL

When you are working with a database, or any other kind of software, your experience is enhanced or hindered by the tools you use to interact with it.

We’re excited to announce a partnership with Timescale that introduces support for TimescaleDB on Azure Database for PostgreSQL for customers building IoT and time-series workloads.

There are numerous IoT use cases in different industries. The most common categories of IoT use cases include predictive maintenance, connected vehicles, anomaly detection, asset monitoring, and many others.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a fully managed, enterprise-ready community PostgreSQL database as a service. The PostgreSQL Community edition helps you easily migrate existing apps to the cloud or develop cloud-native applications using languages and frameworks of your choice.

This blog is a continuation of a series of blog posts to share best practices for improving performance and scale when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL service.

Generally available: Lsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines; Generally available: Query Store for Azure SQL Data Warehouse; The Things Network and Azure IoT connect LoRaWAN devices; and so much more.

We are excited to announce public preview availability of Read Replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Today, we announced the acquisition of Citus Data, an innovative open source extension to scale out PostgreSQL databases without the need to re-architect existing applications. Citus Data delivers unparalleled performance and scalability by intelligently distributing data and queries across multiple nodes, which makes sharding simple.

At Ignite 2018, Microsoft’s Azure Database for PostgreSQL announced the preview of Query Store (QS), Query Performance Insight (QPI), and Performance Recommendations (PR) to help ease performance troubleshooting, in response to customer feedback.

Apache Airflow is an open source platform used to author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

Most modern applications are built using events whether it is reacting to changes coming from IoT devices, responding to a new listing in a marketplace solution, or initiating business processes from customer requests.

Whether you are a developer, database administrator, site reliability engineer, or a DevOps professional at your company, monitoring databases is an important part of maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of your PostgreSQL server.