PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

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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

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	PostgreSQL
Considered Both Products	PostgreSQL Global Development Group vijay bhopalwani Software Engineer L3 in Engineering at ReliableSoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - India (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose PostgreSQL First It's open source and it's cost-effective compared to other databases.PostgreSQL can be easily integrated with numerous platforms. It is well known and appreciated so relying on it as our system database can be easily accepted by our customers. And if your developing a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL For our use cases, PostgreSQL is just as feature rich as other options, costs less, and is simple to get up and running. There is also a plethora of documentation to support it which makes it a great option for a small scale startup without needing high levels of expertise to … Incentivized Helpful? 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? Erlon Sousa Pinheiro Senior Devops Engineer in Information Technology at SOTI (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees) Chose PostgreSQL I've been using different databases for the past 20 years, solutions like MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Interbase, Firebird, DB2, etc., and by using them I wasn't able to be neither close to the performance PostgreSQL deliver. Also, it is one of the most popular databases on … 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 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 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? Amit Gupta Head Product & Technology in Engineering at Nactus India Services Pvt Ltd (Education Management, 1-10 employees) Chose PostgreSQL Object oriented approach Json data type support Timezone aware timestamps Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL A free corporate professional product. Who does not want to have such a thing, we hesitated because we did not know the product before and frankly we did not want it at first. But when we give it a chance, it has been running smoothly for years. Incentivized Helpful? Valeri Karpov Principal Engineer in Engineering at Booster Fuels (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees) Chose PostgreSQL When we were originally evaluating Redshift we ran into some issue with dates. Either way, Postgres is a better choice than Redshift because it avoids vendor lockin. We ended up choosing Postgres over MySQL because it was easier at the time to get a hosted Postgres cluster up … 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? Mark Mitchell Vice President of Information Technology in Information Technology at MedSurvey (Market Research, 11-50 employees) Chose PostgreSQL Much more mature and stable when compared to MySQL with features such as MVCC, complex subquery plans, ORDBMS, and NoSQL support. With Oracle retaining rights to MySQL its future as an open database is less secure and is no longer in the hands of the community. PostgreSQL also … Incentivized Helpful? Adolfo Maltez Administrador de Servidores in Information Technology at Ministerio de Salud de El Salvador (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose PostgreSQL Its main characteristic is the integrity of the data. In addition, being free software, it has no costs associated with its license, which allows the number of installations to be scaled without problems. The technical staff quickly learns about its installation, configuration … 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? Paul De Audney Senior Staff Engineer in Engineering at SafetyCulture Pty Ltd (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose PostgreSQL We selected PostgreSQL due to the number of employees who have used it in the past. The data consistency guarantees. The multiple transaction isolation levels support. Incentivized Helpful? Don Burks Technical Lead in Information Technology at Sphere (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees) Chose PostgreSQL PostgreSQL outperforms every other option. It is faster, more flexible, more reliable, easier to maintain, and more consistent in behaviour than any of the other offerings. Incentivized Helpful? Vladimir Salnikov Lead Engineer in Information Technology at Bee Robotics (Food Production, 1001-5000 employees) Chose PostgreSQL The main reason for select PostgreSQL against MS SQL Server Express edition is the necessity to use open-source platform, without any issues for licensing, client licensing, etc. etc, which is usually follows developers and project managers when they start to use products and … 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? Javier Blanque Technology Risk and Information Assets Manager in Information Technology at Banco Interfinanzas S.A. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose PostgreSQL SQL Server is an excellent product from Microsoft, it is a derivative from Sybase which originally developed the SQL Server form Unix and Linux, and Microsoft purchased it to migrate the DBMS to Windows Server. But the cycle comes full circle, and now Microsoft recommends its … Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose PostgreSQL It's a viable alternative, with a rich feature set and a reliable system. PostgreSQL is one of the best RDBMS's currently on the market in 2020, it serves just as well as a starter, PoC DB for any software idea as a final, highly valuable database solution for big systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PostgreSQL Faster than MySQL/MariaDB and obviously cheaper than Microsoft. Performance is amazing. Incentivized Helpful? 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 PostgreSQL is rich in features and free to use which is perfect for our organization. PostgreSQL is our goto RDBMS if we want to create an application or services backend with the database if there's no specific requirement. For example for the most important and largest … Incentivized Helpful? Arthur Zubarev Senior Data Platform Consultant in Information Technology at Sermo (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees) Chose PostgreSQL PostgreSQL beats every other RDBMS offering for being truly Open Source. Since it does not belong to a specific company it is poised to remain as such for a long time to come. PostgreSQL has a huge user base and active community. The releases are coming out often with … Incentivized Helpful?
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	PostgreSQL
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (7 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)