The importance of effective Postgres foreign key usage in database operations recently resurfaced, with this report pointing to regulators identifying data governance issues linked to the absence of foreign key support in a national healthcare database.
In recognizing their importance in maintaining data integrity and enforcing relationships between tables, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server has long supported Postgres foreign key use. With so many organizations migrating to Postgres Cloud databases, EDB more recently added two storage extensions to enhance the performance of Postgres foreign keys in our fully managed BigAnimal Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).
Addressing Postgres foreign key challenges in cloud database environments.
Using EDB's storage extensions in Postgres cloud database environments enables optimal performance for foreign key constraints in specific use cases. These storage extensions include:
- Refdata: Offers increased scalability for normalized data models with faster foreign key lookups against tables with fewer DELETEs and UPDATEs.
- Autocluster: Allows for faster access to clustered data by allowing for new rows to be added to the same data blocks as related rows, thus keeping the data clustered and reducing time to access.
As a result, customers benefit from access to faster query performance and better support for time series and Internet of Things workloads with BigAnimal, with the ability to tailor their data storage to meet enterprise-scale requirements.
With infrastructure management costs representing a major consideration in deploying enterprise-grade, geo-distributed Postgres in the cloud, EDB’s storage enhancements provide increased scalability for normalized data models and foreign key lookups, as well as faster access to cluster data.
Learn more about EDB’s advanced storage options for Postgres databases by starting your free full-featured BigAnimal DBaaS trial today. Deploy within minutes on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or our own BigAnimal cloud account.