We performed a comparison between EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Firebird SQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Open Source Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I rate EDB Postgres Advanced Server's stability an eight out of ten."
"It gives us a solid, less expensive alternative to deploying with Oracle."
"I like that EDB Postgres Advanced Server scales well. A valuable feature of the solution is multi-tenancy support. It also supports JSONB."
"The low cost and functionality allows us to save money on smaller database projects."
"The documentation is very well written."
"Firebird SQL is an open-source solution and can run on most operating systems, such as Linux, Unix, and Windows."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is reliable, offers good performance, and is easy to use."
"I like that we don't have to pay external fees to migrate this data. So, we are looking to relocate from Postgres or EDB."
"I find the ease of deployment to be the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"I appreciate the fact that, once the database is embedded, it doesn't need to be administered, and removes the requirement for a specific server."
"Firebird SQL is an open-source solution."
"The product was easy to use."
"The security is not very robust and the product would be much more useful with more security options."
"An area for improvement in EDB Postgres Advanced Server is JSONB querying. It would be nice to have even stronger JSONB support from the solution."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"I have faced performance issues in the community edition."
"Firebird SQL's performance has slowed since Firebird SQL 3 or 3.5 versions, where they developed over-the-wire encryption."
"The security of the users could improve in Firebird SQL."
"The solution could improve by providing partitioning and encryption. It is not at the higher level of database solution but it could be with some upgrades."
"I don't think the solution is very scalable, because the scalability of the performance when using more than one process is not very good."
"Database sharing is a capability that Firebird SQL lacks."
"It would be good to have more automation and integration with the tools from other vendors."
"It would be interesting if they added functionality with redundancy, reputation, and variability."
"The main feature I expect is to be able to work with different databases at the same time because that's a wishlist item for me."
EDB Postgres Advanced Server is ranked 6th in Open Source Databases with 6 reviews while Firebird SQL is ranked 3rd in Open Source Databases with 14 reviews. EDB Postgres Advanced Server is rated 8.0, while Firebird SQL is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of EDB Postgres Advanced Server writes "Scales well; works in both development and production environments and has multi-tenancy and JSONB support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Firebird SQL writes "A stable and freely available tool with well-written documents". EDB Postgres Advanced Server is most compared with PostgreSQL, Percona Server, MySQL, YugabyteDB and MariaDB, whereas Firebird SQL is most compared with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service. See our EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs. Firebird SQL report.
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