We performed a comparison between Chroma and PostgreSQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vector Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's very easy to set up and runs easily."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its documentation, which allows new users to easily learn, deploy, and use it."
"Postgres has some functions called JSONB aggregators or other aggregators, which are quite useful."
"PostgreSQL is stable. It's available, stable, and reliable."
"It's a useful solution, that can be widely used."
"The solution has many valuable features such as it easy to use and the interface is intuitive."
"The solution is quite stable."
"It's a standard reliable database management system."
"The database has excellent performance."
"It's a transactional database, so we use Postgres for most of our reporting. That's where it's helping."
"I think Chroma doesn't have a ready-made containerized image available."
"The hybrid algorithm needs improvement."
"PostgreSQL could improve by providing a geographical solution for tracking trucks and people in the field. They might already have features similar to this and I have not found them. I haven't done research about this topic."
"It could be more secure."
"As PostgreSQL is an open-source product, you do have to do a bit more configuration and management yourself."
"We have to set up event API, which takes a lot of events from the user."
"PostgreSQL’s performance could be improved."
"PostgreSQL could improve by adding data warehousing tools."
"We often find the solution's datetime datatype challenging."
"It still needs to be more mature and have some backup feature. We are normally dealing with Oracle's data, and we have very strong online tools to back up the data and do other things. PostgreSQL still needs to do more in this area as well as in the high availability area. There are many external tools that you can use for PostgreSQL's high availability, but there is no embedded tool within PostgreSQL for high availability. It could have a feature similar to Oracle for working on a distributed system. It can have some scripts to improve the monitoring and some tools to do performance analysis. We have a workaround for most of such requirements except for the support for a distributed system, which is very difficult to have. This area should be included in the core of the database itself."
Chroma is ranked 3rd in Vector Databases with 2 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 5th in Vector Databases with 123 reviews. Chroma is rated 8.6, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Chroma writes "Used for RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation) and provides good documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " Real-time data capture optimizes database performance but Views create problems". Chroma is most compared with Faiss, LanceDB, Redis, Milvus and OpenSearch, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite. See our Chroma vs. PostgreSQL report.
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