We performed a comparison between Faiss and PostgreSQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and others in Open Source Databases."The product has better performance and stability compared to one of its competitors."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"The PostgreSQL database is similar to the SQL Server but has a slightly different technology that has similar resources as well. If the customer has the confidence using SQL Server, they will be fairly comfortable using this solution."
"The performance is good."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The database has excellent performance."
"It is very scalable and comes with a bonus: no licensing issues as you scale with your databases."
"PostgreSQL is very powerful, easy to manage, and has many features."
"The most valuable features are the price, stability, it is scalable and is used by our clients in small business environments, and it is a simple product to use."
"It could be more accessible for handling larger data sets."
"It could be improved by using parallelization. You want basically, distributed computing."
"The search option is not very good."
"The pricing could be better."
"It needs more integration."
"When you get a large number of records in a database and start doing various queries, it can adversely impact the performance of the live running systems. That's an area we continue to look at and mean to improve, but it is not only because of PostgreSQL. It is also because of the way the schemas are put together, and certain events are triggered. So, it is because of both parties."
"It would be great if the solution offered even more integration capabilities."
"We often find the solution's datetime datatype challenging."
"The user interface for the clients could be easier to use as they are small businesses. From a technical support perspective, the documentation could be improved."
Faiss is ranked 11th in Open Source Databases with 1 review while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 120 reviews. Faiss is rated 7.0, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Faiss writes "Works efficiently with smaller data sets, there could be an integration with automated products ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " A scalable and stable database for transactional purposes". Faiss is most compared with Chroma, Elastic Search, Qdrant, Pinecone and MongoDB, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server.
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