Bruce Momjian: Postgres Rising in Russia

I just returned from two weeks in Russia, and I am happy to report that Postgres is experiencing strong growth there. I have regularly complained that Russian Postgres adoption was lagging, but the sanctions have tipped the scales and moved Russia into Postgres-hyper-adoption mode. New activities include:

• A Postgres Day in Saint Petersburg in July
• Moscow meetings in September and October with 150 attendees
• An October Postgres Day in Saint Petersburg
• A strong Postgres presence and booth at Highload++
• 2015 conferences in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

As part of my visit I spoke at EnterpriseDB partner LANIT. The hour-long presentation was recorded and covers:

• The Postgres community development process
• Comparison of Postgres to proprietary databases
• The future direction of Postgres