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."
"With the database, you can provide a multi-component at the same service with the same performance, scalability, or all those things."
"The performance is good."
"The product is easy to use and works fast for relational databases."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The main value is that it is open source, which means it is free. Our organization has the initiative to go to open source to cut down on cost. Oracle costs us $6 million a year right now, which is killing us, and Postgres costs nothing. So, there is a big push to go to Postgres."
"It's quite scalable."
"PostgreSQL has complete SQL dialects and is useful for writing sophisticated and complex queries. We have experience with Oracle database. My partner is experienced in DDA and he writes sophisticated SQL queries. The solution helps to get the job done in the best possible way. In today’s age, most developers do not have strong SQL knowledge or language command. They find it difficult to write even a SQL statement. These developers write cool queries which perform badly on the database end. As DBAs, we constantly urge the developers not to write bad queries, help them learn more, and write placebo commands."
"The database has excellent performance."
"The hybrid algorithm needs improvement."
"I think Chroma doesn't have a ready-made containerized image available."
"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."
"The database and applications can become very slow."
"It could be improved by using parallelization. You want basically, distributed computing."
"A better graphic user-interface would be nice to see."
"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 would be good to have machine learning functionality in this solution, similar to Microsoft SQL Server and other solutions. Machine learning capability for a basic level or a common user would be useful. It can also have good reporting capabilities."
"It would be great if the solution offered even more integration capabilities."
"PostgreSQL could improve by adding data warehousing tools."
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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