IIn today’s fast-paced, mission-critical environments, downtime is not an option. Collaboration platforms must meet the highest standards of availability, reliability and security to support organizations tasked with safeguarding global operations. Recognizing this need, Mattermost, a leader in secure, real-time collaboration, has partnered with pgEdge, a pioneer in distributed PostgreSQL technology, to bring unparalleled availability to the Mattermost collaboration platform.

Mattermost has a well-earned reputation for being the leading collaboration platform for organizations with exacting security requirements. Here at pgEdge, we are delighted to partner with them to now add ultra-high availability database access to the impressive array of Mattermost capabilities.

Why Ultra-High Availability Matters

Mattermost has long been the leading collaboration and workflow platform for mission-critical work within industries requiring robust security and reliability, including government, defense, and critical infrastructure sectors. It accelerates out-of-band incident response, DevSecOps workflows, mission operations, and self-sovereign collaboration to bolster the focus, adaptability, and resilience of the world’s most important organizations. Mattermost’s offerings include enterprise software and single-tenant SaaS solutions tailored for rigorous environments, providing seamless channel-based messaging, file sharing, audio calling, screen sharing, and workflow automation.

For certain customers there is a need to ensure these mission-critical collaboration capabilities are always on and always available, even if the primary data center hosting the solution becomes completely unavailable.

This is where pgEdge comes in. By integrating pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL, Mattermost enhances the reliability and availability of its platform with multi-active replication and ultra-high availability features provided by the pgEdge platform. This partnership allows organizations to deploy Mattermost across a truly distributed PostgreSQL running on a geographically-distributed cluster, giving the ability to operate even when a data center (cluster node) becomes temporarily or permanently unavailable.

Picture1What is pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL?

pgEdge offers a distributed PostgreSQL database designed for ultra-high availability, low latency, and data residency. Its multi-master replication enables active-active database nodes across geographic locations, reducing latency and eliminating single points of failure. pgEdge also delivers on strict Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) requirements, making it a natural fit for mission-critical applications in government and large enterprises.

Mattermost has been successfully running on Postgres for many years and is now able to further bolster this support by utilizing pgEdge to meet the high availability requirements of some of the world’s most demanding organizations.

Key features of pgEdge include:

  • Standard PostgreSQL Compatibility: Built on the most popular database platform among developers, pgEdge ensures seamless integration with existing PostgreSQL-based applications. Additionally, allowing for taking advantage of the newest and most advanced Postgres features.

  • Geographic Distribution: Reduces latency for global deployments.

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  • Four-Nines (99.99%) and Five-Nines (99.999%) Uptime: Ensures minimal downtime even in adverse scenarios with a highly flexible architecture that allows for substantial redundancy and fault tolerance.

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  • No Downtime Maintenance and Ease of Upgrade: With pgEdge's ability to flexibly add nodes and have cross version clusters, it simplifies long-term maintenance and strengthens the database’s ability to stay up to date with the latest technology.

The Integration: Always-On Collaboration

Through partnering with pgEdge, Mattermost confidently established a pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL cluster to provide customers with an always-on collaboration solution, deployable both on-premises or within secure cloud environments. The integration also supports installation in air-gapped systems, ensuring security in the most isolated environments.

Given the platform’s open-source nature, Mattermost was easily able to be ported from regular standard Postgres to pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL with almost zero code changes. Users gain all the benefits of pgEdge Distributed Postgres without requiring any additional rework for existing Mattermost customers, allowing for a quick migration.

Installation of the Mattermost-pgEdge integration is very straightforward: after pgEdge and Mattermost have each been installed all that is required to enable the integration is to run a supplied integration installation script.

A testament to the ease and efficacy of the integration, a major U.S. government agency with a need for always-on collaboration has already deployed the integrated solution, reinforcing its reliability for highly demanding scenarios. The combined solution is now available for enterprises with similar stringent availability and security requirements.

What This Means for Enterprises

For enterprises and government agencies alike, this partnership represents a significant step forward in ensuring reliable and secure collaboration. Whether it’s for DevSecOps workflows, mission operations, or self-sovereign collaboration, the integration of Mattermost with pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL provides a resilient foundation for uninterrupted operations.

Organizations interested in adopting this ultra-high availability solution can explore more about Mattermost at mattermost.com and pgEdge at pgedge.com.

This collaboration redefines what’s possible in secure, mission-critical environments, combining Mattermost's expertise  with pgEdge’s groundbreaking distributed database technology. Together, they ensure your staff stays connected, no matter the challenge.