Oracle Database vs. PostgreSQL

Oracle Database

1,185 Reviews and Ratings

PostgreSQL

336 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle Database	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Database, currently in edition 23ai, is a converged, multimodel database management system. It is designed to simplify development for AI, microservices, graph, document, spatial, and relational applications.	$0.05 per hour
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

Oracle Database

PostgreSQL

Oracle Base Database Service - Standard: $0.0538
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - Enterprise: $0.1075
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - High Performance: $0.2218
per hour
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Enterprise Edition: Contact Sales
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Pricing Offerings
Oracle Database	PostgreSQL
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Oracle Database	PostgreSQL
Considered Both Products	Oracle Verified User Chose Oracle Database Not at my current employer, but previously I have evaluated and used all Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL and MySQL. All of them had their own advantages and disadvantages. SQL Server had great built in tools like SSIS and SSRS that integrated well … Incentivized Helpful? Paolo Borghi Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant in Information Technology at Techedge SpA (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Oracle Database Even if is quite expensive, Oracle Database 12c is way better than most of its competitors thanks to Oracle experience and skills on database technologies. Oracle Database has always guaranteed the best data recovery and fault management policies, thanks to Oracle's RAC … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Database I personally have also supported both Microsoft SQL Server and PostgresSQL. We have used Microsoft SQL Server for some smaller projects where the vendor only supports that environment. But whenever there is a choice, we use Oracle Database 12c. Students access our systems at all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Database Oracle Database is best in business, consistent, and robust. Even the standard version is sufficient for the best performance. The main thing is I have never seen corruption and in my opinion, it is best when used with Linux. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Database In my opinion, Oracle Database is highly reliable, has better performance with large databases and little to no maintenance once everything is setup. Also, recovery of the Oracle database is much simpler and easier. Incentivized Helpful? Arthur Zubarev Senior Data Platform Consultant in Information Technology at Parsons Corporation (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle Database Oracle Database is among the easiest to integrate with, program against, have a reliable cluster with DR, and has the most understood and well-documented databases. It suits really well if the software shop is primarily Java-based, and deals with large volumes of data with a … Incentivized Helpful? Shailandra Vaish Sr Database Engineer in Information Technology at S&P Global Inc (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle Database Oracle is serving a different segment with respect to those above. Till now, we have stuck with Oracle and continued to support our internal customers. Other DBs are serving a few targeted applications by a few application teams. Incentivized Helpful? Ken Turner Oracle Database Administrator in Information Technology at Auburn University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Oracle Database Oracle is much more advanced and more reliable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle Database Oracle 12c is good for all business applications but still consider Microsoft SQLServer for internal/other applications to save on cost. Incentivized Helpful? yixiang Shan Strategic Planning And Engineering Advisor in Information Technology at FedEx Express (Package/Freight Delivery, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle Database Oracle completed solution and support is of cause better than open source solutions, we also choose other NoSQL database and Graph database, to address some very particular business use cases Incentivized Helpful? Ciprian Onofreiciuc Senior Consultant in Product Management at OCTET INTELLIGENCE (Retail, 501-1000 employees) Chose Oracle Database it was not my choice for Oracle 12C, but during the years I've learned on the advantages. If I would choose the Oracle 12C, I'll take it for the possibility to start from Standard and to go to enterprise based on a business case of use. I really like the possibility to have the … Incentivized Helpful? Sean Scott Oracle Database Administrator in Information Technology at Bodybuilding.com (Retail, 201-500 employees) Chose Oracle Database We're still in evaluation but based on cost and affordability vs. performance for our specific needs (running a $500M retail e-commerce shop) Oracle 12c loses. Licensing and support of Enterprise Edition would equate to a significant percentage of our annual revenue and we … Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas in Information Technology at Consultor independiente de software (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Oracle Database Well, Oracle is a solid database and as I mentioned, is for the first quartile of project complexity. The other solutions mentioned databases have more specific goals and respond to reduced complexity. For example MySQL or PostgreSQL are widely used for startups. On the other … Incentivized Helpful?	PostgreSQL Global Development Group Aurpa Fiza Software Application Developer in Customer Service at Mapple Ltd. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose PostgreSQL In this case, Postgres is preferred because it handles large data sets and requires fewer hardware resources than its competitor, MySQL. Compared to PostgreSQL, Microsoft products are excellent, but the installation process for MS SQL is lengthy. PostgreSQL has an advantage … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos in Legal at Corte Suprema de Justicia (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose PostgreSQL Although the competition between the different databases is increasingly aggressive in the sense that they provide many improvements, new functionalities, compatibility with complementary components or environments, in some cases it requires that it be followed within the same … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL Postgres stacks up just [fine] along the other big players in the RDBMS world. It's very popular for a reason. It's very close to MySQL in terms of cost and features - I'd pick either solution and be just as happy. Compared to Oracle it is a MUCH cheaper solution that is just … 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? Arik Ben-Dov Founder & CEO in Research & Development at Highnet Systems (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose PostgreSQL Both Oracle and MS-SQL database option fell when we evaluated the effect on our overall solution cost to our customers. customer examine the overall cost of the solution they buy, selecting Oracle or MS-SQL would leave less money in our pockets. We are Linux based solutions and … Incentivized Helpful? Anson Abraham Data Czar in Engineering at Envisagenics, Inc. (Biotechnology, 11-50 employees) Chose PostgreSQL PostgrPostgreSQL as a transaction db engine against oracle and sql server works well. TPM wise compared to MySQL and MariaDB, on an evan scale. SQL function supports, far outweighs compared to MySQL and MariaDB. PG Extensions allow for flexibiltity and scalability. Allows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is the proper tool when data consistency matters and other BASE or document-based databases are simply improper. I think PostgreSQL has a fantastic system of slony replication, triggers, and other data maintenance functionality that other databases generally don't … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Oracle Database	PostgreSQL
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (178 ratings)	9.1 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (6 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.4 (5 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (5 ratings)	9.3 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.6 (3 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)