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EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs Percona Server comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

EDB Postgres Advanced Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Percona Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
18th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of EDB Postgres Advanced Server is 2.3%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Percona Server is 2.4%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
EDB Postgres Advanced Server2.3%
Percona Server2.4%
Other95.3%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Munirathnakumar Si - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Cyber Security Consultant - Cloud and Container at Standard Chartered Bank
Though user-friendly, it fails to offer a mobile application to users
The product currently fails to offer a mobile application. In the future, I want the solution to offer a mobile application, especially since you can access the services via mobile phone with all the service providers like AWS and others. A mobile application provided by the product can help a user to see the status whenever needed.
Frederico De Almeida - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Embratur
Clustered databases have improved consistency and reduced downtime for critical applications
Percona Server offers excellent scalability and easy configuration. The configuration feature is particularly valuable to me because adding a new server requires minimal effort, which streamlines my workflow. Database consistency is the most important feature for me. Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime for applications and improving backup capabilities. Percona Server has improved downtime and backup management by making it easy to switch to another server when necessary, and it includes built-in backup functionality.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I would highly recommend EDB Postgres Advanced Server to others."
"Postgres is highly compatible with many software and programming languages. Its compatibility is excellent, covering nearly everything related to data engineering or migration."
"The number of indices available in Postgres is remarkable."
"Cost/benefit wise Postgres is a great solution."
"I like that EDB Postgres Advanced Server scales well. A valuable feature of the solution is multi-tenancy support. It also supports JSONB."
"This product has allowed us to reduce costs in some parts of our infrastructure without losing functionality."
"Major reduction in run cost, and a quantum leap in the flexibility of deployment models Elimination of replication of transaction from reporting systems Able to do rolling upgrades with zero production downtime."
"The backup utility tools such as pg_restore and pg_dump are really convenient and efficient tools to handle backup and recovery."
"We find the product mostly stable."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime for applications and improving backup capabilities."
"In my use of Percona Server, I've found that the replication and High Availability features are the most valuable."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by providing a consistent database and persistence, and it reduces the downtime for the replication of applications during disasters."
 

Cons

"There aren't specific new features we wish to add."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"The security is not very robust and the product would be much more useful with more security options."
"Postgres performance is suffering and the product model is not doing enough to keep current."
"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."
"It suffers issues ranging from data corruption to failing to delete temporary files which then necessitate us having to perform server restarts."
"I have faced performance issues in the community edition."
"Setting up MySQL is slightly more straightforward than Postgres."
"More material would be helpful for understanding how to further optimize the implementation."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
"It doesn't reclaim disk space when rows are deleted."
"Percona Server could be improved by adding more advanced query fields, which would be very helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is either free with community support or very inexpensive with a small yearly fee for paid support."
"It is an open-source product."
"EDB Postgres Advanced Server is open source, so I don't pay for licensing."
"Pricing is significantly lower than competing products."
"I have been working on the community edition."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise8
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for EDB Postgres Advanced Server?
EDB Postgres Advanced Server offers both processor-based and user-based licensing options. The cost is reasonable, particularly for middle and lower-tier customers, but there are hiccups when deali...
What needs improvement with EDB Postgres Advanced Server?
It was challenging to think of improvements for Postgres. We did not choose to extend or add new features to Postgres since it already meets our needs so well. There aren't specific new features we...
What is your primary use case for EDB Postgres Advanced Server?
Our primary use case for EDB Postgres Advanced Server was to study the code base behind it. We aimed to understand how it has been built, how the engine functions, the querying process, and what ki...
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Sample Customers

Ericsson, Clear Capital, PinkRoccade, ABN Amro, WholeWorldBand, Van Genechten, Gallinat-Bank AG, Mariner, coresystems, Aquent, Contegix, AQA, Genscape, InMobi
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