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."The low cost and functionality allows us to save money on smaller database projects."
"It gives us a solid, less expensive alternative to deploying with Oracle."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the replication mode."
"MariaDB is stable and the initial setup is straightforward."
"MariaDB can solve things better than MySQL. Maria DB has better performance than MySQL."
"The solution runs very quickly. It's not slow at all."
"The integration with other products is seamless."
"MariaDB is scalable."
"From a customer perspective, MariaDB is a good choice for cluster configuration. It's also easy to operate and cheap."
"The product has been stable and reliable."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"The security is not very robust and the product would be much more useful with more security options."
"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."
"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."
"The product needs more features and more functionality. It's imperative that it supports more platforms, and supports more operating systems."
"The maintenance and performance could be a bit better."
"An improvement would be scaling it up to the levels of Oracle, especially when it comes to resilience, so that we can do higher transactions for two databases or power our operation."
"The configuration could be improved. It should be easier."
"It's not very stable. It needs improvement."
"Document caching is an area of concern in the product, where improvements are required to help MariaDB improve on the previous queries as they are retained, and you can roll back to them."
"I’m not sure if it can scale."
EDB Postgres Advanced Server is ranked 7th in Open Source Databases with 6 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 52 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 "Easy to deploy, cost-effective, and integrates seamlessly with other products". 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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