We compared PostgreSQL and Firebird SQL based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Overall, PostgreSQL is praised for its robustness, stability, efficiency, and customer service, while Firebird SQL receives appreciation for its integration capabilities and security measures. PostgreSQL users highlight its performance, scalability, and wide range of features, while Firebird SQL users value its speed, scalability, and resource management. Both have affordable pricing and efficient customer support, but PostgreSQL users note the need for better optimization and documentation, whereas Firebird SQL users want improved performance and error messaging.
Features: PostgreSQL offers robustness, scalability, and an extensive range of built-in data types. Users praise its excellent performance and advanced SQL functionality. On the other hand, Firebird SQL is valued for its seamless integration with programming languages, high-performance capabilities, and strong data security measures. Both products have their unique strengths.
Pricing and ROI: PostgreSQL offers flexible pricing options with manageable setup costs and fair licensing terms, catering to various budgets. On the other hand, Firebird SQL is known for its reasonable and affordable pricing, low setup costs, and straightforward licensing process. Both products have different approaches to cost and setup., PostgreSQL emerged as a valuable investment with impressive functionalities, scalability, security features, and seamless integration. Firebird SQL also yielded positive returns but lacks specific highlights.
Room for Improvement: PostgreSQL: Areas for improvement include enhancing overall performance and optimization, addressing difficulties during installation and configuration, improving documentation and resources for developers, and enhancing the user interface for easier navigation. Firebird SQL: Improvements needed in performance and speed, especially with larger datasets. Better documentation and detailed error messages are necessary for troubleshooting. Query optimization and compatibility with other databases should also be enhanced.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for PostgreSQL indicate that deployment and setup took either three months with an additional week or just one week. In contrast, the reviews for Firebird SQL are mixed, with some users stating a quick process of around a week for all phases and others reporting several months for deployment alone., PostgreSQL's customer service and support have been praised for their responsiveness, helpfulness, and effectiveness. Firebird SQL's customer service is highly regarded for their promptness, efficiency, knowledge, and friendliness.
The summary above is based on 17 interviews we conducted recently with PostgreSQL and Firebird SQL users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"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."
"Firebird SQL is an open-source solution."
"I appreciate the fact that, once the database is embedded, it doesn't need to be administered, and removes the requirement for a specific server."
"The documentation is very well written."
"Firebird SQL is an open-source solution and can run on most operating systems, such as Linux, Unix, and Windows."
"I find the ease of deployment to be the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"We are happy with the event capabilities of Firebird SQL database. We can raise events from it and display them in our application."
"The solution is very useful for stock management."
"PostgreSQL makes it very adaptable to several descriptions of a record. Instead of having several tables or several relations for one entity, I can adapt this entity. It can be a multiform entity. For example, here in Mexico, a company and a person can be sold to us as a physical entity or a physical person."
"It is easy to use."
"It's a standard reliable database management system."
"PostgreSQL is very powerful, easy to manage, and has many features."
"We often use PostgreSQL for operations monitoring because we are a manufacturing company."
"It is very simple to manage."
"It's quite scalable."
"We are able to create many different types of jobs and items with this solution making it one of the most valuable features."
"The main feature I expect is to be able to work with different databases at the same time because that's a wishlist item for me."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable, because the scalability of the performance when using more than one process is not very good."
"It is not easy to integrate the tool with Visual Studio."
"It would be good to have more automation and integration with the tools from other vendors."
"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."
"This solution isn't very user-friendly, or intuitive, which could be improved when it is developed."
"Database sharing is a capability that Firebird SQL lacks."
"On large databases, we have some difficulties."
"There are several features I would like to improve that aren't working as expected. It's likely that the latest version is doing something that was missed in the previous versions. For example, the output parameters — the stored procedures — is something new in PostgreSQL that Firebird has already had for a long time."
"As PostgreSQL is an open-source product, you do have to do a bit more configuration and management yourself."
"There are some products out there that have a slightly different method of implementation for the SQL language. Some of those are slightly better in some areas, and PostgreSQL is slightly better in some areas. I would probably like to match all of those products together. It is just down to the functionality. For example, Oracle has a number of options within SQL that are outside of what you would class as the SQL standard. PostgreSQL misses some of those, but PostgreSQL does other things that are better than what Oracle does. I would like to merge those two products so that there is a certain amount of functionality in a single product."
"It needs more integration."
"The interface climate could be better."
"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."
"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 could be improved by using parallelization. You want basically, distributed computing."
Firebird SQL is ranked 4th in Open Source Databases with 14 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 120 reviews. Firebird SQL is rated 7.8, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Firebird SQL writes "A stable and freely available tool with well-written documents". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " A scalable and stable database for transactional purposes". Firebird SQL is most compared with MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and YugabyteDB. See our Firebird SQL vs. PostgreSQL report.
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