Elasticsearch vs. PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

208 Reviews and Ratings

PostgreSQL

336 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Elasticsearch	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Elasticsearch is an enterprise search tool from Elastic in Mountain View, California.	$16 per month
PostgreSQL	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	PostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.	N/A

Pricing

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Standard: $16.00
per month
Gold: $19.00
per month
Platinum: $22.00
per month
Enterprise: Contact Sales

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Pricing Offerings
Elasticsearch	PostgreSQL
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Elasticsearch	PostgreSQL
Considered Both Products	Elastic Verified User Chose Elasticsearch We first started out experimenting with PostgreSQL's fulltext searching capabilities for our project. As our dataset grew, PostgreSQL began to slow down too much for our purposes. The simple fact that Elasticsearch has built-in clustering and replication was enough for us to … Incentivized Helpful? Anatoly Geyfman Founder & CEO in Information Technology at Carevoyance (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees) Chose Elasticsearch When we first evaluated Elasticsearch, we compared it with alternatives like traditional RDBMS products (Postgres, MySQL) as well as other noSQL solutions like Cassandra & MongoDB. For our use case, Elasticsearch delivered on two fronts. First, we got a world-class search … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Kramer Senior Software Engineer in Research & Development at Octiv (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Elasticsearch Power and simplicity along with performance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Elasticsearch Ability to support JSON queries, Percolator, ease to set up and custom routing were some of the reasons why we decided to use Elasticsearch instead of Solr. Incentivized Helpful?	PostgreSQL Global Development Group Verified User Chose PostgreSQL MySQL: As I mentioned before, MySQL has superior write performance. However, Postgres has super read performance and safer ACID transactions, i.e. less potential data loss. Elasticsearch: we use Elasticsearch to store free-form customer data, but that's a different use-case. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL We evaluated both PostgreSQL and MySQL, two popular open source relational databases. While they are very similar in most areas, PostgreSQL's reliability and performance won us over, plus it has much better support from cloud vendors we also work with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL As I have been telling all along, PostgreSQL is much cheaper compared to the other RDBMS solutions. It has got better performance with some of the application services that we are using and is easy to maintain. Overall, we are satisfied migrating to PostgreSQL database clusters. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Kramer Senior Software Engineer in Research & Development at Octiv (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose PostgreSQL I think Postgres stacks up great against all modern database solutions and has continued to be a trend leader in this space. Incentivized Helpful? Anatoly Geyfman Founder & CEO in Information Technology at Carevoyance (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees) Chose PostgreSQL We evaluated MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL Server and a few other hosted options. We loved the fact that PG is both a GIS system and a traditional RDBMS. The mindshare around PG is high -- thousands of answers on StackOverflow, very active developer community and a punctual release … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL As mentioned previously, I came from primarily a MySQL background. I had used other databases such as SQL Server and Oracle, but MySQL is what I used most of the time for my RDBMS needs before switching to PostgreSQL. MySQL/MariaDB certainly have some great strengths, but I … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Elasticsearch	PostgreSQL
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (48 ratings)	9.1 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.8 (9 ratings)	9.3 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)