We compared PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, PostgreSQL is praised for its extensive range of features, excellent customer service, and overall valuable investment for businesses. On the other hand, EDB Postgres Advanced Server is highly regarded for its robust performance, scalability, and integration capabilities. Areas for improvement in PostgreSQL include enhancing performance and documentation, while EDB Postgres Advanced Server could benefit from improved performance optimization and user interface.
Features: PostgreSQL is appreciated for its robustness, stability, scalability, reliability, and versatility. It has excellent performance, advanced SQL functionality, extensive community support, wide selection of extensions, compatibility with various systems and languages. EDB Postgres Advanced Server is valued for its robust performance, scalability, seamless integration, advanced tools, flexibility, and compatibility.
Pricing and ROI: PostgreSQL offers flexible pricing options, manageable setup costs, and fair licensing terms based on user feedback. On the other hand, EDB Postgres Advanced Server is praised for its affordable and straightforward setup cost, along with flexible licensing options that satisfy users., EDB Postgres Advanced Server users reported highly favorable ROI, highlighting significant value and benefits. No explicit mention of evaluation or critique.
Room for Improvement: PostgreSQL could benefit from improvements in performance, installation and configuration processes, documentation, and user interface. EDB Postgres Advanced Server users desire enhancements in performance, documentation, troubleshooting, and user interface to provide a more efficient and intuitive experience.
Deployment and customer support: In comparing the reviews between PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server, users reported varying durations for deployment and setup. Some users of PostgreSQL took three months for deployment, while others took a week. EDB Postgres Advanced Server also had users who took three months for deployment, but some users only required a week. Additionally, users of both products mentioned spending an additional week on setup. However, the context in which these terms are used should be carefully evaluated. In cases where both deployment and setup took a week, it can be assumed that they refer to the same period and should not be considered separately., PostgreSQL's customer service is known for its responsiveness and helpfulness, delivering excellent support experiences. Meanwhile, the customer service of EDB Postgres Advanced Server is praised for its excellence, providing commendable assistance and ensuring customer satisfaction through prompt and effective solutions.
The summary above is based on 12 interviews we conducted recently with PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"I like that EDB Postgres Advanced Server scales well. A valuable feature of the solution is multi-tenancy support. It also supports JSONB."
"The low cost and functionality allows us to save money on smaller database projects."
"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."
"It's a transactional database, so we use Postgres for most of our reporting. That's where it's helping."
"PostgreSQL is stable. It's available, stable, and reliable."
"The product is quite flexible."
"It is very useful for both structured and unstructured data. You can store unstructured and structured data in PostgreSQL. It is easy to use. You can easily manage things through PostgreSQL Admin. It is cost-effective. Its on-premise version is free. It is agnostic of on-premise or cloud. You can install it on the cloud or on-premises. It is available with all clouds, and you can also install it on desktop or Windows Servers."
"It's quite scalable."
"The solution is scalable, it is very good."
"The product is very similar to the SQL Server."
"The database has excellent performance."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"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."
"The security is not very robust and the product would be much more useful with more security options."
"I have faced performance issues in the community edition."
"They need to improve the user experience of the management."
"PostgreSQL could improve by adding data warehousing tools."
"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."
"It could be more secure."
"When you get a large number of records in a database and start doing various queries, it can adversely impact the performance of the live running systems. That's an area we continue to look at and mean to improve, but it is not only because of PostgreSQL. It is also because of the way the schemas are put together, and certain events are triggered. So, it is because of both parties."
"PostgreSQL is a stable system, but from a security point of view, it still needs improvement."
"I find it difficult to get connectors on the tool. For example, .NET has only one free provider in PostgreSQL. I need to pay the provider if I need something more sophisticated features. Other languages like PHP and Java have good community support. We need community support for .NET."
"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."
EDB Postgres Advanced Server is ranked 6th in Open Source Databases with 6 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 123 reviews. EDB Postgres Advanced Server is rated 8.0, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.4. 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 PostgreSQL writes " Real-time data capture optimizes database performance but Views create problems". EDB Postgres Advanced Server is most compared with Percona Server, MySQL, YugabyteDB and MariaDB, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Chroma. See our EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs. PostgreSQL report.
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