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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

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

Categories and Ranking

EDB Postgres Advanced Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
13th
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
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of EDB Postgres Advanced Server is 2.3%, down from 2.7% 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.
Aidan McCarthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Data Infrastructure Engineer at Susquehanna International Group
Improved high-volume workflows and backups but still need materialized views and feature parity
Percona Server could be improved to keep pace with other flavors of MySQL, such as MariaDB, and could pivot to be Percona Server for MariaDB given Oracle's reduced investment in MySQL recently.The introduction of materialized views in Percona Server would be a significant help, as this feature has been requested for a long time.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The low cost and functionality allows us to save money on smaller database projects."
"I rate EDB Postgres Advanced Server's stability an eight out of ten."
"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."
"The number of indices available in Postgres is remarkable."
"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."
"Postgres is highly compatible with many software and programming languages. Its compatibility is excellent, covering nearly everything related to data engineering or migration."
"I would highly recommend EDB Postgres Advanced Server to others."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime for applications and improving backup capabilities."
"We find the product mostly stable."
"Percona Server's scalability is very strong, as it features thread pooling for over 10,000 connections, scales out horizontally, and comes with XtraDB Cluster and ProxySQL, making it very effective."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization because it is open source, and if the official MongoDB goes in different directions or makes its product expensive, we can still use Percona Server, which serves as a sort of safety net."
"In my use of Percona Server, I've found that the replication and High Availability features are the most valuable."
 

Cons

"Setting up MySQL is slightly more straightforward than Postgres."
"It suffers issues ranging from data corruption to failing to delete temporary files which then necessitate us having to perform server restarts."
"The security is not very robust and the product would be much more useful with more security options."
"I have faced performance issues in the community edition."
"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."
"Lighter integration model for containerized deployment. Effectively, there still remain some issues with a containerized deployment, so we have opted for a non-containerized deployment."
"There aren't specific new features we wish to add."
"I would like to see improvements in the performance, especially in large-scale operations, as it currently cannot match Oracle's performance."
"Percona Server could be improved by adding more advanced query fields, which would be very helpful."
"I also think there should be more use cases and documentation on deploying in Kubernetes with real-life examples, as currently, the documentation is minimal, making it difficult in a production situation."
"It doesn't reclaim disk space when rows are deleted."
"Percona Server could be improved to keep pace with other flavors of MySQL, such as MariaDB, and could pivot to be Percona Server for MariaDB given Oracle's reduced investment in MySQL recently."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Retailer
7%
Comms Service Provider
21%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
No data available
 

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Percona Server?
I do not have experience with pricing, setup cost, or licensing for Percona Server.
What needs improvement with Percona Server?
I believe it would be great to have tools to deploy Percona Server in Docker so that we can split a huge database server into many small servers, which are easier to maintain and delegate to junior...
What is your primary use case for Percona Server?
My main use case for Percona Server is deploying the community version without support to MongoDB servers in Kubernetes, and I also use Percona Server Exporter tools. Using Percona Server for deplo...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Ericsson, Clear Capital, PinkRoccade, ABN Amro, WholeWorldBand, Van Genechten, Gallinat-Bank AG, Mariner, coresystems, Aquent, Contegix, AQA, Genscape, InMobi
Pricefalls Marketplace, Micpoint, Rent the Runway, Transmart, Wattpad, Singular Group, Invoca, 3E
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