We performed a comparison between Percona Server and PostgreSQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and others in Open Source Databases."We find the product mostly stable."
"The solution has many valuable features such as it easy to use and the interface is intuitive."
"PostgreSQL is very easy to use. I have experience in Oracle SQL and PostgreSQL uses the same syntax which makes it is easy for me to develop."
"The community support and the open-source community for it are good."
"The PostgreSQL database is similar to the SQL Server but has a slightly different technology that has similar resources as well. If the customer has the confidence using SQL Server, they will be fairly comfortable using this solution."
"Clustering will be the number 1 feature. It is also open-source so it is free. It can also be clustered, to allow fault tolerance."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are the price, stability, it is scalable and is used by our clients in small business environments, and it is a simple product to use."
"PostgreSQL is stable. It's available, stable, and reliable."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
"I'd like to see better memory management. I think that that's one of the few areas that Postgres does not handle as well as MySQL does or did."
"PostgreSQL’s performance could be improved."
"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."
"It is possible that in the newer version this has been addressed, but I would like the deployment in microservices architecture could be improved."
"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."
"The database and applications can become very slow."
"PostgreSQL doesn't have a feature for temporal SQL, which is useful for gathering versions of data. This feature should be included in PostgreSQL. This feature is available in MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle Database, and DB2."
"The pricing could be better."
Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 120 reviews. Percona Server is rated 7.6, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " A scalable and stable database for transactional purposes". Percona Server is most compared with MariaDB, MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB and Weaviate.
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