In today’s rapidly evolving data landscape, the demand for versatile, scalable, and high-performance database solutions is more significant than ever. Celebrated as one of the most advanced open-source databases, PostgreSQL powers countless modern applications, from analytics platforms to AI-driven solutions. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a new suite of extensions that redefine what’s possible with PostgreSQL on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the new extension manager to deploy them securely.
Let’s reintroduce PostgreSQL, not just as a database but as an innovation hub capable of powering data-driven transformations across industries. With OCI’s robust architecture and PostgreSQL’s open source ingenuity, organizations can now achieve unprecedented levels of flexibility, performance, and innovation. Building on this legacy, our latest extensions now supported on OCI’s fully managed PostgreSQL expands it capabilities in ways that make possible new use cases, improve performance, and simplify database management.
Managing PostgreSQL extensions is now simpler than ever with OCI’s built-in Extension Manager. This feature provides a centralized, user-friendly interface to discover, enable, and manage extensions without the usual complexity. Whether you’re adding analytics capabilities with pg_stat_statements or building AI-powered features with pgvector, the Extension Manager streamlines the process, letting you focus on innovation.
With a few selections in the Oracle Cloud Console, you can browse a catalog of supported extensions, enable them seamlessly, and monitor their performance, all while benefiting from Oracle’s enterprise-grade security. Say goodbye to manual configurations and make your PostgreSQL database more powerful, secure, and efficient.
The following extensions are now available, adding powerful new functionalities:
Let’s highlight five extensions that stand out for their transformative capabilities.
pgvector is designed for machine learning (ML) applications, enabling similarity searches on vector embeddings. This capability is especially valuable in AI-driven use cases like recommendation systems, image recognition, and semantic search. It offers the following key benefits:
E-commerce platforms can use pgvector to enhance product recommendations by matching customer behavior with similar historical data, ensuring personalized shopping experiences.
postgres_fdw (foreign data wrapper) enables integration with external PostgreSQL databases, facilitating distributed queries and data federation, and offers the following key benefits:
Global organizations can centralize reporting by federating data from regional PostgreSQL databases, creating unified dashboards without disrupting local database operations.
pgrowlocks provides visibility into row-level locking, empowering administrators to identify and resolve concurrency issues. It offers the following key benefits:
High-transaction environments, such as financial services, can use pgrowlocks to monitor and optimize database performance during peak usage.
pg_stat_statements tracks processing statistics for all SQL queries, helping identify slow or resource-intensive queries with the following benefits:
Data analytics teams can ensure that their dashboards load quickly by continuously monitoring and tuning frequently run queries.
pg_cron integrates cron-like scheduling directly into PostgreSQL, simplifying task automation and providing the following benefits:
Automate nightly database cleanups and reporting tasks in retail or healthcare systems, improving reliability and operational efficiency.
By combining PostgreSQL’s versatility with OCI’s enterprise-grade infrastructure, these extensions pave the way for groundbreaking use cases in AI, analytics, distributed systems, and more. Whether you’re enhancing customer experiences, optimizing operations, or building next-gen applications, these tools equip you with the capabilities to succeed.
Explore these new extensions today and unlock the true potential of PostgreSQL with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database. The future of data-driven innovation awaits!
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In Oracle since 2018, Julien is a subject matter expert as cloud and cybersecurity/CDN solutions architect, product director and successful global sales. He's a certified architect with OCI, AWS and Azure. Julien belongs to OCI Global Product Marketing and Enablement team. He's dedicated to Oracle Modern Data Platform unique positioning. Julien is based in Vancouver, Canada and was previously in Amsterdam and Singapore with Oracle.
Julien holds a MS of the Institut Polytechniques de Grenoble, an INSEAD MBA and speaks French, Spanish and English.
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