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12:30 PM ET | Mar 18, 2026

Sybase/SAP ASE End-of-Life: A Practical Modernization Journey to Distributed PostgreSQL with YugabyteDB and HexaRocket

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How to Move from a Traditional Database to Distributed PostgreSQL

With Sybase/SAP ASE reaching end-of-life and vendor support winding down, technology leaders are accelerating plans to move off legacy platforms.

The single-server, monolith architecture is no longer a reliable long-term foundation. Failover models are fragile, scalability is limited, and integrations with AI applications and modern systems are becoming increasingly complex.

At the same time, few organizations can afford a high-risk, multi-year migration.

A leading alternative is an advanced open-source ecosystem built on distributed PostgreSQL, delivering cloud-native scale, resilience, and flexibility for modern transactional and analytical applications. But why?

Why Watch?

In this webinar, Avi Vallarapu, founder and CEO at HexaCluster, and Alan Caldera, Distinguished Engineer at Yugabyte, will deep dive into the benefits of a distributed SQL database built on the open-source ecosystem, and demonstrate a practical engineering journey for modernizing from a traditional architecture, such as Sybase/SAP ASE, to YugabyteDB using HexaRocket. 

What You'll Learn

  • Gain knowledge of Sybase/SAP ASE modernization challenges and drivers
  • Explore why distributed PostgreSQL is a leading alternative for app modernization journeys
  • Discover how to build for horizontal scalability, multi-region deployments, global transactional consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and support for OLTP and analytical workflows
  • Watch a live demo on how to use HexaRocket for a practical, end-to-end migration approach to moving from Sybase/SAP ASE to YugabyteDB
  • Partake in an interactive Q/A and ask your questions on efficient schema conversion, data migration, and CDC-based replication.

Register now and join us at 12:30 PM ET on March 4, 2026. Can’t make it to the live session? Sign up today, and we’ll send you the on-demand recording.

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Speakers

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Avi Vallarapu
Founder & CEO, HexaCluster

Avinash Vallarapu is the CEO and Chief of Products at HexaCluster, where he focuses on building practical, high-impact solutions around PostgreSQL and distributed data platforms. A long-time PostgreSQL enthusiast and open-source contributor, Avi has played a key role in supporting contributions to 50+ PostgreSQL tools and extensions across the ecosystem. He is the author of multiple PostgreSQL books and a familiar voice on global conference stages, known for translating complex database topics into actionable guidance for engineering teams.

Across a 21-year career, Avi has worked hands-on with a wide range of database technologies including PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Sybase, and DB2. He has led initiatives spanning database architecture, performance, operational reliability, and large-scale modernization programs. At HexaCluster, he spearheaded the development of products like HexaRocket, designed for end-to-end database migrations and modernization with minimal downtime. His recent work centers on helping organizations modernize legacy application stacks, moving from monoliths to microservices, adopting open-source technologies strategically, and delivering transformation blueprints that scale for the long term.

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Alan Caldera
Distinguished Engineer, Yugabyte

Alan is a Distinguished Engineer with Yugabyte. As the first Sales Engineering hire by Yugabyte in 2018, Alan has played a key role in many of the transformations that customers have undertaken. Prior to joining Yugabyte, Alan worked with ParAccel (progenitor of Amazon Redshift), InfluxDB, IBM, Informix in presales, consulting, and development roles.

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