About

Postgres Consulting Services

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Science Tools Corporation

History | Mission

Introducing Postgres Consulting Services

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Our History:

In 1994, Professor Michael Stonebraker, who created the Postgres RDBMS, invited Science Tools' founder, Richard Troy, to lead a research project for him within U.C. Berkeley's Electronics Research Laboratory. Funded by NASA, the project was designed to solve major data and systems integration issues for earth science researchers. Because the Postgres research project was mature but still ongoing in the same offices, he chose to harness the Postgres system. Richard and his team built "University BigSur," the world's first grid computing system by "hacking the brains" of Postgres, getting it to run arbitrary code when desired, and in so doing provide an implementation capable of performing "the query from hell."

Since that time, virtually all of Science Tools' technical talent has come up through the ranks of Relational Database Engines, with a heavy emphasis on Postgres, especially following the company's choice of PostgreSql as the standard platform in 2004.

You can learn more about Science Tools' history here.

History of Consulting at Science Tools

When Science Tools first commercialized University BigSur, the business always involved a large "customization" effort, which was, in effect, consulting services. Because of BigSur's meta-data-focused architecture, there was a heavy emphasis on database work. The first supported database system was Informix's UDS (and various permutations). Founder Richard Troy then wrote an SQL Dialect translation engine and soon thereafter the system supported five RDBMSes, including:

Continuing Forward

Science Tools has moved forward with specialized services for the PostgreSql community. For example, through the introduction of Binary Replication, we have provided various leading-edge fail-over scripts and other tools and utilities for our customers to help them manage large, mission critical applications. In addition, we have created a "Consultant's Handbook" which helps all our consultants deliver top quality services by providing at their fingertips our own internal bible with tips, hints, and directions for addressing all manner of PostgreSql issues - we believe we are the only firm providing Postgres Consulting Services to do so!

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Our Mission:

Science Tools Corporation is dedicated to serving the needs of our customers through strong know-how and experience with vital technologies and techniques. Members of our team continue to be strongly connected to the PostgreSql community, regularly attend PostgreSql community meetings, and remain current on emerging features such as Binary Replication. As one simple example, members of our team were among the very first - if not the very first - to implement production systems using PostgreSql 9.0 with Binary Replication as a mission-critical aspect of the application.

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Contacting Us:

Street Address Do you need directions? Postgres Consulting 613 85th Avenue Oakland CA 94621

Phone: E-mail: 510-717-6942 info@PostgresConsulting.com

Mailing Address   4200 Park Boulevard #151 Oakland CA 94602