PostgreSQL Pricing
The pricing for managed databases will be much higher than self-managed ones. That's something I'm sure about. When it comes to accurate pricing information, I always prefer their pricing tables.
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Kerstin Stefani
Senior Analyst Applications, Projects and Processes at ADVA Optical Networking Israel LTD.
We use the open-source version of PostgreSQL and not the enterprise edition.
View full review »The solution is open-source.
While you have to pay for it, for Postgre, you have to pay for consultancy and implementation. There is professional support, however, I'm not aware of the pricing for it right now. IBM maybe provides that kind of support.
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April 2024
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Saman Raf
Software developer at MTNIrancell
It is an open-source platform.
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reviewer1161609
System Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The licensing model is good.
View full review »Postgre is open source. It is almost completely free.
The community version of Postgre is basically free.
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reviewer1089354
System/Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is free. In terms of operating costs, it basically needs the same platform on which Oracle runs.
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Ariful Mondal
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
It is open-source. If you use it on-premise, it is free. It also has enterprise or commercial versions. If you go for the cloud version, there will be a cost, but it is lower than Oracle or Microsoft.
View full review »PostgreSQL is free and open-source, so if capable admins are available then the setup cost can be negligible. We use internal resources, so it was completely free for us. One can choose the available official support too.
View full review »The solution is open-source. We don't need to have a license in order to use it.
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NaveenKumar21
Senior IT Manager at Excelra
The product is a direct service, and it is free to use. There isn't a licensing fee.
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reviewer1442025
Senior Database Administrator Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It is free. There is no license on it.
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Kaan Çelik
Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The pricing is reasonable. Of course, our economy has been hurt a little due to COVID-19. The pandemic has affected a lot of us. It's been hard for the companies that sell services with a database cost. You really have to choose the lowest-priced options right now. Postgres offers a fair price on the market, currently. That said, it could be less expensive, especially right now.
We definitely plan to continue to use the solution in the future. It's been quite good for us.
That said, I'm not in the financial department and I don't know the exact cost of the solution.
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reviewer1428423
Head of Technical Support at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
The product is free. You don't have to pay a license fee.
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reviewer936300
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
There is an annual license.
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reviewer1644435
IT Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
It is open source. There is no licensing.
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Dimitris Iracleous
Lead Technical Instructor at codehub
The need for our customers to pay for licences is contingent on their projects and budgets. It varies.
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Maurice Aelion
Senior DBA & IT Consultant at MA Consulting
It could be much cheaper. If you would like to build an application on Amazon today, PostgreSQL is the standard database with Redshift. If you want other databases, you can add them, but PostgreSQL is the basis of everything. It's a question of money, that's it.
View full review »I am working with other databases, and not exclusively with PostgreSQL. A lot of other RDBMS require you to pay large amounts of money so I would say that you need to carefully plan your projects according to your needs. If there are specific needs that cannot be met with open-source software I can understand this choice, but otherwise I would always place more trust in the open-source software and its community.
View full review »PostgreSQL is a community product and has no owner other than the community itself. There are companies specialized in offering services and add-ons on top of PostgreSQL, but the database software itself is free, open source and licenced through a BSD and MIT derived licence of its own (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_the_license_of_PostgreSQL.3F).
View full review »PostgreSQL is completely free and fully open-source.
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reviewer1601793
Sr Lead Data & Information Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's not an expensive solution.
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hugodpereira
Computer engineering student at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
The solution doesn't cost anything to use. It's open-source.
View full review »It's free as it's open source.
View full review »The investment was in proper hardware and learning curve to master the database. Charging for expertise to deploy PostgreSQL depends on the expected setup, but in all cases, my choice would be to include a database specialist as early as possible within the development team.
The reason is that pure developers tend to rely on database power, making poorly optimized queries or choosing bad structures that explode later. The data warehouse team then have to clean it up, causing a loss for everyone.
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reviewer1524594
Senior Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
This solution can offer a cheaper choice for customers since it is open-source.
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Karel Van Der Walt
Data Architect at ACPAS Loan Management Software
It is free, but if you need support, you can go for the commercial version called EnterpriseDB. They provide paid support, and they can even do hosting for you if you want standby and support.
View full review »My advice is to always begin with the free licenses, and if you see that your tool is becoming a strategic solution, you can look into obtaining professional licenses.
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Daniel Alejandro Zuleta Zahr
Developer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
PostgreSQL is free, so great ROI!
View full review »Being open source this is not really applicable.
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Andrew Aguda
Projects Manager at Emery Investments
The licensing is fine. It is not a paid database license.
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Liliana Rodríguez
Analista Funcional Líder at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
I recommend everyone to get into the PostgreSQL world, with no licensing costs. PostgreSQL uses a flexible and business-friendly license because it does not restrict the use of PostgreSQL with commercial and proprietary applications. Those who choose PostgreSQL forget the dependency on a provider, the price of the licenses and the changes in the license conditions.
View full review »There is no pricing/licensing at all. Of course, there are many companies offering PostgreSQL support at different costs and some specialized in several languages/countries.
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Florent ADODO
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier
We do not pay for licensing.
View full review »Pricing/licensing is the reason we went with PostgreSQL. As a startup, every dollar counts and PostgreSQL has enabled to us to have an enterprise solution at a fraction of the cost of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
View full review »Obviously pricing and licensing is non-existent, but the costs need to include the expense of in-house expertise, either employees or consultants.
View full review »PostgreSQL is truly open source database system so the licensing cost is zero. If you are migrating from any commercial database system, you are saving licensing and recurring support costs.
View full review »The core product is free but you have to pay for third-party utilities / plugins and support.
View full review »The pricing of the database is open-source and our investment in the product is based on training.
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reviewer1734405
Head Channel and Capacity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We are using the free version of PostgreSQL.
View full review »It's free as it's open source.
View full review »There are no license fees for getting PostgreSQL and we don't yet have experience with paid support such as from EnterpriseDB, but we never needed it.
Your first investment is only in people working with PostgreSQL, and it is the same as with Microsoft SQL Server, but less than with Oracle. Hardware costs are lower for PostgreSQL and Oracle but those are not significant.
View full review »PostgreSQL is free to use.
View full review »PostgreSQL license is a fair enough for small to medium size business solutions.
View full review »We didn't have any setup costs because it is free.
View full review »This is an open-source solution and there is no need to pay for a license.
View full review »It's open source code, so you get it for free and need to contribute to debugging errors and improving the code.
View full review »We use the open source versions of PostgreSQL so there is no expense for licensing.
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PostgreSQL is a long-lasting investment for people who like computers and don’t want to spent much money for database layer implementation.
View full review »The solution requires a license.
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reviewer1353249
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I'm not sure what the licensing costs for the solution are.
View full review »PostgreSQL is free and open source.
View full review »PostgreSQL is free software. The only cost of setup was a few developer hours, and with it being stable, we don't have any day-to-day costs.
View full review »My only cost is for the server that PostgreSQL is hosted on.
View full review »As far as I know, there are no problems with the license for free use.
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Basically zero for both. The product is released under the BSD license and, apart from my salary, my employer have no extra costs on using PostgreSQL
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It's free as it's open source.
View full review »Use backup software that integrates with the solution.
We selected "DB Protection for PostgreSQL", which has some nice features to perform block level incremental forever using IBM Spectrum Protect.
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April 2024
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