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.
"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."
"The low cost and functionality allows us to save money on smaller database projects."
"Postgres has some functions called JSONB aggregators or other aggregators, which are quite useful."
"PostgreSQL is stable. It's available, stable, and reliable."
"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."
"The community support and the open-source community for it are good."
"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."
"This is an open-source solution, operates at a high speed, and supports more than one SQL language."
"We managed to reduce the storage space needed to 10% of the original size, without affecting data integrity, and we significantly improved the performance."
"The built-in code procedural language is the most valuable. It has a built-in layer for code procedures. Its installation is very easy and quick, and it is free. It is also stable, and its performance is also good."
"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."
"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."
"It still needs to be more mature and have some backup feature. We are normally dealing with Oracle's data, and we have very strong online tools to back up the data and do other things. PostgreSQL still needs to do more in this area as well as in the high availability area. There are many external tools that you can use for PostgreSQL's high availability, but there is no embedded tool within PostgreSQL for high availability. It could have a feature similar to Oracle for working on a distributed system. It can have some scripts to improve the monitoring and some tools to do performance analysis. We have a workaround for most of such requirements except for the support for a distributed system, which is very difficult to have. This area should be included in the core of the database itself."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"The interface climate could be better."
"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 needs more integration."
"PostgreSQL’s performance could be improved."
"Instead of the installation agent downloading all the packages for the install, it should allow the user to download the packages separately on their own to do the install."
EDB Postgres Advanced Server is ranked 6th in Open Source Databases with 6 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 120 reviews. EDB Postgres Advanced Server is rated 8.0, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.6. 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 " A scalable and stable database for transactional purposes". 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 YugabyteDB. See our EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs. PostgreSQL report.
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