We performed a comparison between MariaDB vs PostgreSQL based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions are easy to deploy, have good features, an open-source version, good support, and a proven ROI. Which solution you choose will depend on what suits your company’s specific needs and requirements best.
"I am editing."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"It is a stable solution."
"The stability of MariaDB is good, it has high availability."
"The solution has PL/SQL compatibility."
"Installation is straightforward."
"The integration with other products is seamless."
"The solution's high availability is its most valuable aspect."
"Postgres has some functions called JSONB aggregators or other aggregators, which are quite useful."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to manage database system, with a straightforward installation."
"It is a pretty comprehensive database system. Its performance is good, and it does what it is supposed to do. It also integrates very well."
"The solution has many valuable features such as it easy to use and the interface is intuitive."
"The solution is scalable, it is very good."
"The product is very similar to the SQL Server."
"It is very simple to manage."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The product needs more features and more functionality. It's imperative that it supports more platforms, and supports more operating systems."
"The scaling for database online transactions needs improvement."
"Master-master replication is something that needs to be simplified."
"The stability could always continue to be improved upon."
"MariaDB should provide HA and archive logging... I haven't had the opportunity to use the features provided by the solution since I don't know how to see them."
"It would be good if they can maybe improve the mass import in the database. Currently, for importing a large number of data, we create a CSV file and upload all the things in the system. The system does not activate them by default. We have to do this manually. This may be due to the version we are using, but this is something we would like to see improved."
"I would like to see a better user interface which would make the tool less complex."
"The price could be less expensive."
"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 would be great if the solution offered even more integration capabilities."
"PostgreSQL could improve by being more user-friendly. In SQL Server they have a studio where you can easily do management but not in this solution."
"Integration with other platforms could be improved."
"If it was free to use, it would be the perfect solution."
"There could be a plugin to distribute the data on servers for the product."
"Instead of the installation agent downloading all the packages for the install, it should allow the user to download the packages separately on their own to do the install."
"The performance of PostgreSQL could improve."
MariaDB is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 52 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 123 reviews. MariaDB is rated 8.2, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Easy to deploy, cost-effective, and integrates seamlessly with other products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " Real-time data capture optimizes database performance but Views create problems". MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, Firebird SQL, MySQL and Percona Server, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, Chroma and SQLite. See our MariaDB vs. PostgreSQL report.
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