What 2ndQuadrant does

2ndQuadrant, founded around 2001 in Oxford, UK, was a leading independent PostgreSQL services and consulting firm. In 2020 it was acquired by EnterpriseDB (EDB), a US-headquartered Postgres company founded in 2006, and today operates within EDB's broader platform organization; Simon Riggs, 2ndQuadrant's founder, is listed as founder and CEO of the combined entity, with Peter Eisentraut as CTO. The combined business sells the EDB Postgres AI platform — a sovereign AI data platform built on PostgreSQL that unifies core database, petabyte-scale analytics, and agentic AI capabilities behind a single control plane (Hybrid Manager) deployable on-premises, in cloud, or hybrid. The product portfolio includes the Core Database, Analytics, Agentic AI, Deploy Anywhere, Distributed HA (up to 99.999% uptime), Agentic Migrations (90-day migration from Oracle/MySQL with 95% fewer manual rewrites), Agent Factory (sovereign agent runtime), Converged Analytics, and Data & AI Governance, alongside open-source building blocks (PostgreSQL, WarehousePG, CloudNativePG, ClickHouse integration).

The company serves 1,700+ enterprise customers worldwide across banking and financial services (BMO, RBC, Mastercard, American Express, Santander, Regions, Euronext FX, Kyobo, STC Pay), government (US Navy, US Army, US Department of Justice), telecom (Vodafone, AT&T), retail (IKEA), and electronics (Samsung, Sony, HP). Its commercial model combines annual subscription licensing for the platform and modules (quote-based, not publicly disclosed), professional services (Technical Account Management, Customer Support), managed database services, and a training/certification portal. Distribution is primarily direct enterprise field sales augmented by a Partner Program and strategic alliances with IBM, NVIDIA, Red Hat, and Supermicro, with self-service software downloads and an online storefront for smaller transactions. Marketing emphasizes "sovereign" AI and data — keeping workloads inside customer-controlled infrastructure — supported by a global 2,050-executive sovereignty study conducted in partnership with MIT.

Name

2ndQuadrant

Legal name

EDB

Website

https://2ndquadrant.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

2ndQuadrant (now part of EDB) provides enterprise PostgreSQL solutions — combining core database, analytics, and agentic AI capabilities — to 1,700+ enterprise customers worldwide, primarily in banking, government, telecom, and retail.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Database Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

NewSQL / Distributed SQL Databases (HDAEAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Database Tools & Ecosystem (Replication, Backup/Recovery, HA/DR, Monitoring) (HDAEAAAO), Data Strategy & Governance Services (BPAEAHAA)

Keywords

• PostgreSQL database platform
• Enterprise database services
• Database high availability
• Managed database services
• PostgreSQL consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Oxford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. EDB Postgres AI Platform: Subscription-based licensing for the EDB Postgres AI platform including database, analytics, and agentic AI capabilities
2. Technical Support Services: Technical account management and customer support services
3. Training Services: Training portal offering Postgres education and certification
4. Managed Experiences: Managed database services for customers wanting outsourced operations

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

2ndQuadrant provides solutions for mission-critical PostgreSQL databases, ensuring high availability, backup and disaster recovery, and more. The company delivers the EDB Postgres AI platform—an enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based database with analytics, agentic AI, and sovereign data capabilities—alongside technical support, managed database, and training services. Its offerings span on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments for large enterprise and government customers.

Product overview

EDB offers a unified platform-plus-modules architecture centered on EDB Postgres AI, combining core database, analytics, and AI capabilities. The portfolio includes Core Database, Analytics, Agentic AI, and Deploy Anywhere as foundational platform components, supplemented by specialized modules including Hybrid Manager (sovereign control plane for multi-environment management), Agent Factory (agent runtime environment for sovereign AI), Agentic Database (autonomous database management), Warehouse Analytics and WarehousePG (petabyte-scale analytics without ETL), Distributed HA (high availability with 99.999% uptime), Agentic Migrations (accelerated migration from Oracle/MySQL), and Converged Analytics. Built on open-source PostgreSQL with CloudNativePG for Kubernetes deployments and ClickHouse integration for specialized OLAP workloads, the platform emphasizes sovereign data control, hybrid/cloud flexibility, and enterprise-grade AI capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EDB Postgres AI: The sovereign AI platform for enterprise data, providing database, analytics, and agentic AI capabilities.
• WarehousePG
• CloudNativePG
• Hybrid Manager
• Agent Factory

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 58% lower TCO vs. cloud
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• IBMcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliance partner providing joint solutions and go-to-market collaboration. IBM is listed as a key strategic alliance on the EDB partners page.
• NVIDIAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliance partner for GPU-accelerated database and AI solutions. NVIDIA is listed as a key strategic alliance on the EDB partners page.
• Red HatcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliance partner for open source enterprise solutions. Red Hat is listed as a key strategic alliance on the EDB partners page.
• SupermicrocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliance partner for hardware-optimized database solutions. Supermicro is listed as a key strategic alliance on the EDB partners page.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MongoDB: Document-oriented database platform that has expanded into a broad developer data platform with Atlas cloud service. Directly competes with EDB Postgres AI for enterprise database spend, particularly in modern application workloads.
• Cockroach Labs: Distributed SQL database built on PostgreSQL wire compatibility, targeting globally distributed, mission-critical workloads. Most directly comparable to EDB's Distributed HA and 99.999% uptime positioning.
• YugabyteDB: Distributed PostgreSQL-compatible SQL database for transactional workloads with horizontal scalability. Competes head-to-head with EDB Postgres AI in cloud-native, distributed SQL scenarios.
• Snowflake: Cloud data platform with strong analytics/warehouse positioning. Competes with EDB's WarehousePG and Converged Analytics for enterprise analytics and AI workloads, and increasingly for unified data platform budgets.
• Percona: Open source database services and tooling company focused on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Competes with EDB in the enterprise PostgreSQL services, support, and tooling layer, often at lower price points.
• MariaDB: Open source relational database vendor with enterprise subscriptions and cloud services. Competes with EDB Postgres AI in the broader enterprise RDBMS market, particularly for MySQL-compatible workloads.

Broad incumbents

• Amazon Web Services (RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL): AWS offers managed PostgreSQL through RDS and Aurora, plus a much broader cloud ecosystem. Competes with EDB for cloud-native PostgreSQL deployments; EDB positions itself for sovereignty and on-prem alternatives to AWS.
• Oracle: Incumbent enterprise database vendor whose Oracle Database is the primary legacy target for EDB's Agentic Migrations. Both vendors compete for mission-critical transactional workloads in large enterprises.

Emerging players

• Timescale: PostgreSQL extension and managed service focused on time-series and analytical workloads. Overlaps with EDB Postgres AI for PostgreSQL-based analytics use cases, particularly in IoT and operational analytics.
• ClickHouse: Column-oriented OLAP database for real-time analytics. ClickHouse is integrated into the EDB Postgres AI platform, but also competes as a standalone analytics destination for high-performance analytical workloads.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/2ndquad
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/2ndquadrant

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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