We performed a comparison between Percona Server 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."We find the product mostly stable."
"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 has completely met our needs. It works, and it is robust. We haven't had any problems with what PostgreSQL does for us and the way it does it. That's why we've been using it for so long. We understand it, and it does the job."
"PostgreSQL is stable. It's available, stable, and reliable."
"The product is quite flexible."
"It's a standard reliable database management system."
"We managed to reduce the storage space needed to 10% of the original size, without affecting data integrity, and we significantly improved the performance."
"It is easy to use."
"The database has excellent performance."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
"The solution needs to improve the query, documentation, and JSON data functionality."
"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 pricing could be better."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"We have to set up event API, which takes a lot of events from the user."
"They need to improve the user experience of the management."
"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."
Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 120 reviews. Percona Server is rated 7.6, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " A scalable and stable database for transactional purposes". Percona Server is most compared with MariaDB, MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB and Weaviate.
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