We performed a comparison between Chroma and PostgreSQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, Meta, Chroma and others in Vector Databases."The solution's most valuable feature is its documentation, which allows new users to easily learn, deploy, and use it."
"It's very easy to set up and runs easily."
"It is easy to use."
"With the database, you can provide a multi-component at the same service with the same performance, scalability, or all those things."
"I like that you can move any relational database from Oracle to PostgreSQL. I also like that it's pretty stable."
"We often use PostgreSQL for operations monitoring because we are a manufacturing company."
"It's a useful solution, that can be widely used."
"Initial setup is simple."
"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."
"It's a transactional database, so we use Postgres for most of our reporting. That's where it's helping."
"The hybrid algorithm needs improvement."
"I think Chroma doesn't have a ready-made containerized image available."
"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."
"The performance of PostgreSQL could improve."
"We have to set up event API, which takes a lot of events from the user."
"The scalability is limited."
"A better graphic user-interface would be nice to see."
"It could be improved by using parallelization. You want basically, distributed computing."
"The interface climate could be better."
"The search option is not very good."
Chroma is ranked 3rd in Vector Databases with 2 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 7th 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 OpenSearch.
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