We performed a comparison between EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Firebird SQL 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 rate EDB Postgres Advanced Server's stability an eight out of ten."
"I like that EDB Postgres Advanced Server scales well. A valuable feature of the solution is multi-tenancy support. It also supports JSONB."
"We are happy with the event capabilities of Firebird SQL database. We can raise events from it and display them in our application."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is reliable, offers good performance, and is easy to use."
"I can deploy it on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows — it's very easy."
"The product was easy to use."
"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."
"It helps us in detecting all kinds of problems in the code, such as bad quality, unclear code, or any violation in the code or best practices."
"The documentation is very well written."
"The most valuable feature of Firebird SQL is the creation of databases."
"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."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"It would be interesting if they added functionality with redundancy, reputation, and variability."
"The security of the users could improve in Firebird SQL."
"Firebird SQL's performance has slowed since Firebird SQL 3 or 3.5 versions, where they developed over-the-wire encryption."
"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."
"In the next release, it should support JSON, XML, and replication with third-party tools."
"On large databases, we have some difficulties."
"It would be good to have more automation and integration with the tools from other vendors."
"This solution isn't very user-friendly, or intuitive, which could be improved when it is developed."
EDB Postgres Advanced Server is ranked 6th in Open Source Databases with 6 reviews while Firebird SQL is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 14 reviews. EDB Postgres Advanced Server is rated 8.0, while Firebird SQL is rated 7.8. 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 Firebird SQL writes "A stable and freely available tool with well-written documents". EDB Postgres Advanced Server is most compared with PostgreSQL, Percona Server, MySQL, YugabyteDB and MariaDB, whereas Firebird SQL is most compared with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service. See our EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs. Firebird SQL report.
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