We compared PostgreSQL and Firebird SQL based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Overall, PostgreSQL is praised for its robustness, stability, efficiency, and customer service, while Firebird SQL receives appreciation for its integration capabilities and security measures. PostgreSQL users highlight its performance, scalability, and wide range of features, while Firebird SQL users value its speed, scalability, and resource management. Both have affordable pricing and efficient customer support, but PostgreSQL users note the need for better optimization and documentation, whereas Firebird SQL users want improved performance and error messaging.
Features: PostgreSQL offers robustness, scalability, and an extensive range of built-in data types. Users praise its excellent performance and advanced SQL functionality. On the other hand, Firebird SQL is valued for its seamless integration with programming languages, high-performance capabilities, and strong data security measures. Both products have their unique strengths.
Pricing and ROI: PostgreSQL offers flexible pricing options with manageable setup costs and fair licensing terms, catering to various budgets. On the other hand, Firebird SQL is known for its reasonable and affordable pricing, low setup costs, and straightforward licensing process. Both products have different approaches to cost and setup., PostgreSQL emerged as a valuable investment with impressive functionalities, scalability, security features, and seamless integration. Firebird SQL also yielded positive returns but lacks specific highlights.
Room for Improvement: PostgreSQL: Areas for improvement include enhancing overall performance and optimization, addressing difficulties during installation and configuration, improving documentation and resources for developers, and enhancing the user interface for easier navigation. Firebird SQL: Improvements needed in performance and speed, especially with larger datasets. Better documentation and detailed error messages are necessary for troubleshooting. Query optimization and compatibility with other databases should also be enhanced.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for PostgreSQL indicate that deployment and setup took either three months with an additional week or just one week. In contrast, the reviews for Firebird SQL are mixed, with some users stating a quick process of around a week for all phases and others reporting several months for deployment alone., PostgreSQL's customer service and support have been praised for their responsiveness, helpfulness, and effectiveness. Firebird SQL's customer service is highly regarded for their promptness, efficiency, knowledge, and friendliness.
The summary above is based on 17 interviews we conducted recently with PostgreSQL and Firebird SQL users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"I like that we don't have to pay external fees to migrate this data. So, we are looking to relocate from Postgres or EDB."
"Robustness is the absolutely main feature."
"I find the ease of deployment to be the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is reliable, offers good performance, and is easy to use."
"The documentation is very well written."
"I appreciate the fact that, once the database is embedded, it doesn't need to be administered, and removes the requirement for a specific server."
"Firebird SQL is an open-source solution."
"We are happy with the event capabilities of Firebird SQL database. We can raise events from it and display them in our application."
"We use the solution to store tables. It is stable and performs well."
"PostgreSQL is very powerful, easy to manage, and has many features."
"The solution is scalable, it is very good."
"It is easy to use."
"The solution is quite stable."
"One of the most valuable features is real-time data capture; it optimizes database performance. I think using real-time data capture reduces job running time and the amount of data sent at once with batch loads."
"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."
"It is easy to install and easy to manage. There is no license on it, so it is free. There is high compatibility with Oracle, and there are many tools for the migration of data from Oracle to Postgre."
"It would be nice to have a graphical user interface to handle the product."
"The solution could improve by providing partitioning and encryption. It is not at the higher level of database solution but it could be with some upgrades."
"The main feature I expect is to be able to work with different databases at the same time because that's a wishlist item for me."
"On large databases, we have some difficulties."
"It would be interesting if they added functionality with redundancy, reputation, and variability."
"In the next release, it should support JSON, XML, and replication with third-party tools."
"Database sharing is a capability that Firebird SQL lacks."
"Firebird SQL's performance has slowed since Firebird SQL 3 or 3.5 versions, where they developed over-the-wire encryption."
"They need to have a better graphical interface. There is a tool called pgAdmin 4 that they use, which is free. It is written in Java, and it is slow. They need to have a better product that is similar to Toad for Oracle, but, of course, it is hard to get something that's really great and free. Other than that, it is great."
"PostgreSQL could improve by adding data warehousing tools."
"It needs more integration."
"We often find the solution's datetime datatype challenging."
"It could be improved by using parallelization. You want basically, distributed computing."
"A better graphic user-interface would be nice to see."
"PostgreSQL’s performance could be improved."
"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."
Firebird SQL is ranked 3rd in Open Source Databases with 14 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 123 reviews. Firebird SQL is rated 7.8, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Firebird SQL writes "A stable and freely available tool with well-written documents". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " Real-time data capture optimizes database performance but Views create problems". Firebird SQL is most compared with MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Chroma. See our Firebird SQL vs. PostgreSQL report.
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