For decades, large technology corporations dominated the database industry, holding a monopoly over their clients' critical applications and data. Their go-to-market strategies left customers frustrated with the lack of flexibility and control over core infrastructure.

Over the past 30 years, a community has built PostgreSQL around an open-source ethos, with development focused squarely on producing the best possible database technology. Because no single dominant corporation controls the software, decisions on its direction cannot favor one vendor's interests. Each new release is delivered to the community, and with every release the code improves.

Where PostgreSQL stands today

Postgres 17 is due for release, following many other iterations of the code under a changed numbering convention. For some customers, open source as a pure-play strategy remains difficult to bring into the enterprise, particularly when core business applications run on it. Regulated industries in particular require governance and support for business-critical applications — a need that commercial Postgres support companies have emerged to fill.

CYBERTEC: 25 years of PostgreSQL support

CYBERTEC provides PostgreSQL services and support and has been a key contributor to the open-source Postgres community project throughout nearly 25 years of trading, concentrating on the technology itself along with its supporting tools and extensions. Reaching its 25th birthday in 2025 makes it the longest-serving Postgres support company in the market.

  • Patroni: CYBERTEC consultants are among the leading contributors to Patroni, the industry-leading open-source high availability tool for Postgres. The company is widely regarded as the most qualified commercial business involved in the project, which provides a five 9's uptime SLA for its customers, and remains highly active in the Patroni community.
  • Transparent Data Encryption: CYBERTEC is credited as the author of the industry-leading TDE security extension for PostgreSQL, packaged as a component of its Postgres Enterprise Edition (PGEE) subscription. This gives users the most secure version of Postgres possible and an open-source database that is truly enterprise-ready.
  • 24x7 support: As contributors to the open-source Postgres project, CYBERTEC offers around-the-clock support, so the individuals who contribute to the code also support customers' environments.

A "perfect storm"

Three forces are converging. Incumbent commercial database suppliers have reached a point where their contracts are punitive and their pricing models unattractive. PostgreSQL itself has been through many development cycles and now operates at a technological level that is breaking new ground. And enterprise readiness — the governance and support needed to make the open-source option viable — is available.

For organizations facing expensive renewals from an incumbent vendor, seeking assurance that a "free open-source" database could suit their enterprise, or needing support and enterprise extensions as they begin their Postgres journey, CYBERTEC offers an answer.