main genealogy database. OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Afilias, domain registries for .org, .info and others. Sony Online multiplayer online games. BASF, shopping platform for their agribusiness portal. Reddit social news website. Skype VoIP application, central business databases. Sun xVM, Sun's virtualization and datacenter automation suite. MusicBrainz, open online music encyclopedia. The International Space Station – to collect telemetry data in orbit and replicate it to the ground. MyYearbook social-networking site. Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing service. Disqus, an online discussion and commenting service. TripAdvisor, travel-information website of mostly user-generated content. Yandex, a Russian internet company switched its Yandex.Mail service from Oracle to Postgres. Amazon Redshift, part of AWS, a columnar online analytical processing (OLAP) system based on ParAccel's Postgres modifications. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS), Interactive Forecast Preparation System (IFPS), a system that integrates data from the NEXRAD weather radars, surface, and hydrology systems to build detailed localized forecast models. United Kingdom's national weather service, Met Office, has begun swapping Oracle for PostgreSQL in a strategy to deploy more open source technology. WhitePages.com had been using Oracle and MySQL, but when it came to moving its core directories in-house, it turned to PostgreSQL. Because WhitePages.com needs to combine large sets of data from multiple sources, PostgreSQL's ability to load and index data at high rates was a key to its decision to use PostgreSQL. FlightAware, a flight tracking website. Grofers, an online grocery delivery service. The Guardian migrated from MongoDB to PostgreSQL in 2018. YugabyteDB implements the PostgreSQL query layer as its default SQL mode Service implementations Some notable vendors offer PostgreSQL as software as a service: Heroku, a platform as a service provider, has supported PostgreSQL since the start in 2007. They offer value-add features like full database roll-back (ability to restore a database from any specified time), which is based on WAL-E, open-source software developed by Heroku. In January 2012, EnterpriseDB released a cloud version of both PostgreSQL and their own proprietary Postgres Plus Advanced Server with automated provisioning for failover, replication, load-balancing, and scaling. It runs on Amazon Web Services. Since 2015, Postgres Advanced Server has been offered as ApsaraDB for PPAS, a relational database as a service on Alibaba Cloud. VMware has offered vFabric Postgres (also termed vPostgres) for private clouds on VMware vSphere since May 2012. The company announced End of Availability