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."
"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."
"It gives us a solid, less expensive alternative to deploying with Oracle."
"Great monitoring and performance stability."
"MariaDB is easy to install and is stable and scalable."
"The solution has PL/SQL compatibility."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source product and offers its users great online community support."
"It is a scalable solution. It easily scales up and scales down."
"The solution is very stable. It was originally built under MySQL. It has a similar level of stability."
"The stability of MariaDB is good, it has high availability."
"One of the great features of MariaDB is its scalability. It's easy to handle even with large databases."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"I have faced performance issues in the community edition."
"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."
"The stability could always continue to be improved upon."
"It doesn't have the same level of maturity metrics as Postgres."
"There is room for improvement in terms of security."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements in the scalability and redundancy features."
"The license should be cheaper and closer to that offered by MySQL, Oracle and other products."
"The price could be less expensive."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"I would like to see a better user interface which would make the tool less complex."
EDB Postgres Advanced Server is ranked 6th in Open Source Databases with 6 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 3rd in Open Source Databases with 51 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 "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". EDB Postgres Advanced Server is most compared with PostgreSQL, Percona Server, MySQL and YugabyteDB, whereas MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL and MySQL. See our EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs. MariaDB report.
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