We performed a comparison between EDB Postgres Advanced Server and MariaDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Open Source Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like that EDB Postgres Advanced Server scales well. A valuable feature of the solution is multi-tenancy support. It also supports JSONB."
"I rate EDB Postgres Advanced Server's stability an eight out of ten."
"It gives us a solid, less expensive alternative to deploying with Oracle."
"The low cost and functionality allows us to save money on smaller database projects."
"From the user's perspective, the performance of the columnar queries is very good in terms of the database when comparing it to the Oracle, and MySQL."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"We use MariaDB for identity provider services. Most of the things that we are doing are deployed in the container mode. All such solutions require a database, and MariaDB is easier to use for these kinds of deployments."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a relational database, which is fairly reliable...It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the replication mode."
"From a customer perspective, MariaDB is a good choice for cluster configuration. It's also easy to operate and cheap."
"Great monitoring and performance stability."
"We like the easy way that we can collect data from other databases."
"An area for improvement in EDB Postgres Advanced Server is JSONB querying. It would be nice to have even stronger JSONB support from the solution."
"I have faced performance issues in the community edition."
"The security is not very robust and the product would be much more useful with more security options."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us."
"MariaDB could improve by adding support for non-relational structures and new data types."
"I'd like to see improved materialized views, like the ability to save select queries. This feature is missing in MariaDB compared to other relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server."
"It would be helpful if I could specify multiple drives for the database storage."
"Maria DB has to improve from a management perspective."
"The difficult part related to the product stems not from the tool itself but is related to learning how to implement the product in the right way without creating any wrong configuration that could cause security issues or performance issues."
"One feedback I can quickly provide is the need for a robust IDE for MongoDB. The existing PHP admin console doesn't meet the client's requirements effectively."
"The dashboard and pricing need improvement."
EDB Postgres Advanced Server is ranked 6th in Open Source Databases with 6 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 51 reviews. EDB Postgres Advanced Server is rated 8.0, while MariaDB is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of EDB Postgres Advanced Server writes "Scales well; works in both development and production environments and has multi-tenancy and JSONB support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". EDB Postgres Advanced Server is most compared with PostgreSQL, Percona Server, MySQL and YugabyteDB, whereas MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL and MySQL. See our EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs. MariaDB report.
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