Dalibo
Dalibo is a French PostgreSQL specialist and worker cooperative (SCOP) founded in 2005, providing support, training, consulting, and migration services to enterprise and government clients. Its ~40-strong Paris-based team maintains 14+ open source PostgreSQL tools via Dalibo Labs.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2005
- HeadquartersParis, France
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Dalibo does
Dalibo is a French worker cooperative (SCOP since 2011) specializing exclusively in PostgreSQL services, founded in 2005 and headquartered at 43 rue du Faubourg Montmartre in Paris. The company maintains a team of approximately 40 PostgreSQL-dedicated specialists, making it the only French-speaking company of its size focused solely on PostgreSQL and the only Francophone firm to hold Major Sponsor status with the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. Its service portfolio spans four lines: recurring PostgreSQL support contracts (priced per supported instance with 2-hour response SLA, optional 24/7 priority tier, on-site emergency intervention, and remote database management); a Qualiopi-certified training catalog of 11+ courses (DBA1-3, HAPAT, DEVPG, PERF1-2, DBAADM, plus PostGIS via partner Oslandia) delivered in inter-company public sessions or intra-company group sessions; architecture consulting, system audits, and high-availability implementations; and database migration engagements from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, Sybase, and DB2 to PostgreSQL.
Underlying the services business is a portfolio of 14+ open source PostgreSQL tools maintained through Dalibo Labs, including temBoard (instance fleet monitoring), PostgreSQL Anonymizer (GDPR-compliant data masking), pglift (lifecycle automation with Ansible), ldap2pg (LDAP-driven role sync), PostgreSQL Migrator (Oracle/MySQL to PostgreSQL), pg_activity, PEV2, PoWA, E-Maj, PAF, pgShark, Dramatiq-pg, HypoPG, and Ansible collections. Employees are contractually allotted up to 20% of working time ("CCC time") for open source contributions. GTM is hybrid: sales-led for enterprise/government contracts, community-led via PGSession (annual conference since 2008), pgDay Paris sponsorship, PostgreSQLFr, and PostgreSQL Europe involvement, plus event-driven demand generation through workshops (notably a new CloudNativePG offering).
The customer base spans French government (CNRS, DGFIP, Douanes Françaises, Gendarmerie Nationale, INSEE, Ministère de la Santé), social security bodies (AGIRC, CNAF, CNAM-TS, CNAV), financial institutions (BNP Paribas Factor, CNP Assurances, Crédit Agricole, Groupe MAIF, Auxia), aerospace and defense (Airbus, CNES, Thalès), telecommunications (Orange), retail (Carrefour, Kiabi, Système U), and IT services (Atos, Capgemini, SPIE). As a SCOP, the firm is 100% employee-owned with no external investors, and decisions are made democratically via elected cogérantes (currently Carole Arnaud and Virginie Jourdan, who assumed co-leadership in 2022 after co-founder Jean-Paul Argudo's departure in late 2021).
Dalibo firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Dalibo
- Legal name
- Dalibo SARL SCOP
- Website
- https://dalibo.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2005
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Dalibo is a French PostgreSQL specialist and worker cooperative (SCOP) founded in 2005, providing support, training, consulting, and migration services to enterprise and government clients. Its ~40-strong Paris-based team maintains 14+ open source PostgreSQL tools via Dalibo Labs.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Dalibo industry classification
Industry- Product category
- PostgreSQL Database Services
- NAICS
- Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platforms (HDAEAAAN)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Data Center Operations & Managed Services (Remote Hands, NOC/SOC) (HDABANAA)
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Where Dalibo is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Paris
- HQ country
- France
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
Dalibo business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others
Revenue model
- PostgreSQL Support Contracts: Annual and multi-year support contracts priced based on number of PostgreSQL instances supported. Includes unlimited calls and emails, security alerts, knowledge base access, optional on-site interventions, priority processing, 24/7 coverage, active supervision, and remote database management.
- Training Services: Instructor-led training (DBA1, DBA2, DBA3, HAPAT, DEVPG, PERF1, PERF2, DBAADM, and PostGIS via partner). Offered as inter-company (public, per-participant pricing) or intra-company (on-site or remote, group pricing). Training manuals freely accessible under Creative Commons license.
- Consulting and Advisory Services: Architecture consulting, system audits, data security, and high availability implementation services delivered by expert PostgreSQL consultants.
- Migration Services: Database migration engagements from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, Sybase, and DB2 to PostgreSQL. Includes decision support, implementation, and transition phases.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit Pricing | Per occurrence | HAPAT (High Availability) inter-enterprise training: 2250€ HT per participant |
| Unit Pricing | Per occurrence | HAPAT (High Availability) intra-enterprise training: 9250€ HT for up to 8 participants |
| Subscription | Annual | Basic support contract: priced per PostgreSQL instance |
| Subscription | Annual | Priority/24/7 support extension: priced as add-on to basic contract |
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels12 records
Dalibo product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Dalibo provides PostgreSQL support contracts, architecture consulting, database audits, migration services from Oracle/MySQL/SQL Server to PostgreSQL, and a Qualiopi-certified training curriculum for enterprise and government clients in France. The company also develops and maintains a portfolio of open-source PostgreSQL management and monitoring tools (temBoard, PostgreSQL Anonymizer, pglift, ldap2pg, PostgreSQL Migrator, pg_activity) published through Dalibo Labs.
Product overview
Dalibo is a French PostgreSQL specialist company (SCOP cooperative) providing services around PostgreSQL databases. Their offering consists of open-source tools published through Dalibo Labs (temBoard, PostgreSQL Anonymizer, pg_activity, pglift, ldap2pg, PostgreSQL Migrator, PEV2, PoWA, pgShark, Dramatiq-pg, E-Maj, HypoPG, PAF), free training manuals (DBA1, DBA2, DBA3, DEVPG, PERF1, PERF2, DBAADM, HAPAT), commercial services (PostgreSQL support, consulting, migration, and training), and community events (PGSession annual conference, workshops). The open-source tools focus on database administration, monitoring, security, migration, and automation.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Dalibo Labs: PostgreSQL tools and projects laboratory where the company publishes its open source contributions
Products and services
- PostgreSQL Support Contracts Tiered annual and multi-year PostgreSQL support contracts priced by number of instances, including unlimited calls and emails, 2-hour maximum intervention time, security alerts, knowledge base access, on-site emergency intervention, and optional priority/24-7 extensions with active supervision and remote database management.
- PostgreSQL Consulting and Advisory Services Architecture consulting, system audits, data security, and high availability implementation services delivered by PostgreSQL expert consultants for enterprise and government clients.
- Database Migration Services End-to-end migration engagements from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, Sybase, and DB2 to PostgreSQL, including decision support, implementation, and transition phases.
- PostgreSQL Training (DBA1, DBA2, DBA3, HAPAT, DEVPG, PERF1, PERF2, DBAADM) Qualiopi-certified instructor-led PostgreSQL training across five tracks (Administration, Performances, Development, Transition to PostgreSQL, SIG via partner Oslandia), delivered as public inter-company sessions in Paris or remote and as private intra-company on-site sessions.
- temBoard Open-source remote control and monitoring tool for PostgreSQL instance fleets, providing alerting, query analysis, bloat identification, lock management, and remote configuration with a non-intrusive architecture.
- PostgreSQL Anonymizer Open-source PostgreSQL extension enabling Privacy by Design compliant data anonymization and masking directly in the database for GDPR use cases.
- pglift Open-source PostgreSQL automation framework providing a command-line interface for database lifecycle management and Ansible modules for infrastructure-as-code deployments in production contexts.
- ldap2pg Open-source tool that synchronizes PostgreSQL roles and ACLs from LDAP directories, supporting PostgreSQL 18 and ARM architectures.
- PostgreSQL Migrator Open-source database migration tool to modernize and transition databases to PostgreSQL from Oracle and MySQL.
- pg_activity Open-source command-line tool for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring, similar to the 'top' command, displaying running queries, locks, and backend activity.
Quantifiable outcome
- 95% trainee recommendation rate for HAPAT (High Availability) training
- +4 more outcomes
Companies that use Dalibo
Customer profileNamed customers27 records
Segments7 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
Dalibo technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration6 records
Feature15 records
Dalibo partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Ten partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.
- pgBackRest Sponsors CoalitionminorFollowing the announced discontinuation of pgBackRest development by its sole maintainer David Steele (Crunchy Data/Snowflake), a community coalition of sponsors formed to ensure pgBackRest's continuity. Dalibo is part of this coalition providing financial support, contributing to the long-term sustainability of the pgBackRest backup tool.
- OslandiacoreDalibo partners with Oslandia to offer unlimited PostGIS support. This collaboration provides a unique support gateway for PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases, combining Dalibo's PostgreSQL expertise with Oslandia's geospatial specialization. The partnership enables joint delivery of PostGIS training and support services, with Oslandia's PostGIS courses offered through Dalibo's platform.
- CloudNativePG / Linux FoundationcoreDalibo provides specialized support for CloudNativePG, the Kubernetes operator for PostgreSQL, now a community project under the Linux Foundation. Dalibo offers dedicated workshops on CloudNativePG, writes technical articles about the operator, and developed a pgBackRest plugin for it (cnpg-plugin-pgbackrest). Dalibo is part of the coalition of sponsors supporting pgBackRest continuity after its original maintainer stepped away.
- PostgreSQLFrcoreFrench-speaking association dedicated to PostgreSQL. Dalibo founders and team members are actively involved; Damien Clochard administers the postgresql.fr platform and chairs PostgreSQLFr. The association organizes community events and promotes PostgreSQL in French-speaking regions.
- PostgreSQL EuropecoreEuropean organization for PostgreSQL users and promoters. Guillaume Lelarge served as treasurer of PostgreSQL Europe for 10 years. Dalibo actively participates in European PostgreSQL events and community activities.
- pgDay PariscoreAnnual French PostgreSQL community conference. Dalibo (notably Carole Arnaud) has long been involved in organizing pgDay Paris. Represents key community event for French PostgreSQL ecosystem.
- APRILminorThe main Free Software organization in France. Dalibo supports APRIL as part of its commitment to the free software movement and open source ecosystem.
- FramaSoftminorOrganization promoting Free Software and culture in the French-speaking world. Dalibo supports FramaSoft as part of its commitment to free software values.
- CNLLminorOrganization promoting French open source companies. Dalibo is a member, representing open source PostgreSQL expertise within the French open source business community.
- Confédération générale des SCOPminorFrench Cooperatives Confederation. Virginie Jourdan, Dalibo's cogérante and HR director, serves on the Board and is secretary of the Bureau of Union régionale des SCOP et SCIC IDF, contributing to the cooperative movement. Dalibo operates as a SCOP since 2011.
Scale indicators10 records
Recent moves8 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Dalibo competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- EnterpriseDB (EDB): The largest independent PostgreSQL company globally, offering enterprise Postgres distributions, support, and tooling. EDB is a broad incumbent in the same PostgreSQL services and support category as Dalibo, but at materially greater scale, with proprietary distribution and a US/global go-to-market.
- Percona: Open source database services and software company providing support, consulting, and managed services across MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. Overlaps with Dalibo on the PostgreSQL services side but operates a multi-DBMS model and at much larger scale.
- Pivotal/VMware Tanzu: Major enterprise platform vendor (now under Broadcom) with a PostgreSQL-compatible database (Greenplum) and Kubernetes data services. A broad incumbent that competes for enterprise PostgreSQL-adjacent workloads, particularly in cloud-native deployments.
- AWS RDS for PostgreSQL: Hyperscaler managed PostgreSQL service. A broad incumbent that absorbs the operational complexity Dalibo's support and consulting services are designed to address — the most significant competitive force in the managed PostgreSQL space.
Direct peers
- Crunchy Data: PostgreSQL-focused company offering managed PostgreSQL, support, and consulting; develops pgBackRest (the backup tool Dalibo integrates with and now co-sponsors). Crunchy is the closest direct peer in mission and product set — both offer expert PostgreSQL services to enterprise and government.
- 2ndQuadrant: PostgreSQL consultancy and support company (now part of EDB/EDB Postgres AI) historically known for high-availability and replication expertise — the same specialty that anchors Dalibo's HAPAT training and consulting practice.
- OSlandia: French open source GIS and PostGIS specialist company that partners with Dalibo to deliver PostGIS support. Functionally a direct peer on the PostGIS/geospatial PostgreSQL niche, and a cooperative partner in Dalibo's ecosystem.
Emerging players
- Citus Data: PostgreSQL extension company (Citus for distributed/sharded PostgreSQL) acquired by Microsoft in 2019. Comparable to Dalibo in building commercial value on top of open source PostgreSQL, with a focus on scaling and sharding use cases.
- Supabase: PostgreSQL-backed developer platform offering managed Postgres with a SaaS model. Comparable to Dalibo in being a PostgreSQL-centric company building open source tools, but with a developer self-serve go-to-market rather than enterprise services.
- Cockroach Labs: PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database vendor. Adjacent emerging player that targets workloads traditionally run on monolithic PostgreSQL, representing a potential substitute technology path rather than a direct services competitor.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Dalibo social profiles
Digital presenceDalibo compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance1 record
Dalibo financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Dalibo leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles10 records
Dalibo funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Dalibo M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Dalibo
What does Dalibo do?
Dalibo provides PostgreSQL support contracts, architecture consulting, database audits, migration services from Oracle/MySQL/SQL Server to PostgreSQL, and a Qualiopi-certified training curriculum for enterprise and government clients in France. The company also develops and maintains a portfolio of open-source PostgreSQL management and monitoring tools (temBoard, PostgreSQL Anonymizer, pglift, ldap2pg, PostgreSQL Migrator, pg_activity) published through Dalibo Labs.
Is Dalibo a public or private company?
Dalibo is a private company. It is classified as management employee owned and is currently operating.
When was Dalibo founded?
Dalibo was founded in 2005. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Dalibo based?
Dalibo is headquartered in Paris, France, in the Europe region.
How does Dalibo make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. PostgreSQL Support Contracts are the primary driver. The others are training Services, consulting and Advisory Services and migration Services.
Who are Dalibo's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are EnterpriseDB (EDB), Percona, Pivotal/VMware Tanzu and AWS RDS for PostgreSQL. Direct peers are Crunchy Data, 2ndQuadrant and OSlandia. Emerging players are Citus Data, Supabase and Cockroach Labs.
Does Dalibo have an API?
No public API is recorded for Dalibo.
What industry is Dalibo in?
Dalibo's product category is PostgreSQL Database Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEAAAN, Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platforms, with a secondary code of HDABANAA, Data Center Operations & Managed Services (Remote Hands, NOC/SOC). Its NAICS code is 54169 and its SIC code is 7370.