Agencies across the U.S. government have adopted EDB PostgresTM from EnterpriseDB. One of those agencies is critical to securing information for the nation’s defense initiatives and handles a wide range of data, and in particular, considerable stores of geospatial information. That made using Postgres attractive because of PostGIS, an extension for Postgres that is arguably the most powerful geospatial tool in the industry. The agency had been using an Oracle® database with the Spatial Option to support a critical application that handled complex queries and needed to return data quickly. But, there were limitations. The database team wasn’t able to implement all of the functionality. Using EDB’s database compatibility for Oracle, the agency migrated the application

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