Billy VanCannon

With the rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure and managed database services, PostgreSQL has seen a growth in popularity, in no small part, due to companies transitioning their IT systems to make use of cloud infrastructure.

The popularity of PostgreSQL makes it the prime candidate to be the database for a multi-tenant SaaS. But, with multi-tenancy, there are 2 fundamental issues: How do you make sure that the tenant’s data is isolated from each other so that a tenant’s data doesn’t get exposed to other tenants?

Pgvector extends PostgreSQL capabilities to be a vector database as well as an enterprise-class relational database. But, with vector embeddings identified as a potential source of information leakage, the challenge is ensure that companies can take advantage of Postgres and pgvector while remaining compliant with increasingly stringent data security and privacy requirements, especially for...

Encryption is widely accepted as a very powerful access control mechanism and the only one directly applied to data. Despite this, it isn’t as widely used as it could be.