We performed a comparison between MariaDB vs PostgreSQL based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions are easy to deploy, have good features, an open-source version, good support, and a proven ROI. Which solution you choose will depend on what suits your company’s specific needs and requirements best.
"MariaDB is stable and the initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution runs very quickly. It's not slow at all."
"The most valuable feature is that it uses multiple cores, which is better than some of the other databases."
"What I like best about MariaDB is that it is open-source and reliable."
"MariaDB is easy to install and is stable and scalable."
"The stability of MariaDB is good, it has high availability."
"The most valuable feature of MariaDB is that it is open-source and we can easily migrate from other databases, such as Oracle to MariaDB."
"It's easy to set up."
"It has completely met our needs. It works, and it is robust. We haven't had any problems with what PostgreSQL does for us and the way it does it. That's why we've been using it for so long. We understand it, and it does the job."
"The community support and the open-source community for it are good."
"The solution is quite stable."
"We managed to reduce the storage space needed to 10% of the original size, without affecting data integrity, and we significantly improved the performance."
"The database has excellent performance."
"It is easy to use."
"It is very simple to manage."
"It's a standard reliable database management system."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"MariaDB can improve by adding more features. There are a lot of features, which are available in Oracle, and which are not available in MariaDB. We hope they will introduce the features soon."
"The maintenance and performance could be a bit better."
"Replication could be better, and it's not so simple. It would be better if they had a replication server. It would make things a lot easier. You need to have that replication server, but not in the same server farm. Then there will be a bit of latency between both because you should have one in one city and another one in a different city. That kind of solution should be more baked into every single database today. Mirroring the database in a live environment where any record written on the production server replicates instantly across the fiber on the other server wasn't easy. Many people don't even bother with that, and they just run one server."
"The price could be less expensive."
"The solution should do some fine-tuning on maybe the transaction per second so that users can get more than they can on the Microsoft SQL Server."
"It does not have tools for debugging procedures and functions."
"The license should be cheaper and closer to that offered by MySQL, Oracle and other products."
"It could be improved by using parallelization. You want basically, distributed computing."
"There are some products out there that have a slightly different method of implementation for the SQL language. Some of those are slightly better in some areas, and PostgreSQL is slightly better in some areas. I would probably like to match all of those products together. It is just down to the functionality. For example, Oracle has a number of options within SQL that are outside of what you would class as the SQL standard. PostgreSQL misses some of those, but PostgreSQL does other things that are better than what Oracle does. I would like to merge those two products so that there is a certain amount of functionality in a single product."
"When you get a large number of records in a database and start doing various queries, it can adversely impact the performance of the live running systems. That's an area we continue to look at and mean to improve, but it is not only because of PostgreSQL. It is also because of the way the schemas are put together, and certain events are triggered. So, it is because of both parties."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"They need to have a better graphical interface. There is a tool called pgAdmin 4 that they use, which is free. It is written in Java, and it is slow. They need to have a better product that is similar to Toad for Oracle, but, of course, it is hard to get something that's really great and free. Other than that, it is great."
"If it was free to use, it would be the perfect solution."
"As PostgreSQL is an open-source product, you do have to do a bit more configuration and management yourself."
"The solution needs to improve the query, documentation, and JSON data functionality."
MariaDB is ranked 3rd in Open Source Databases with 21 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 39 reviews. MariaDB is rated 8.2, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Provides great database for systems monitoring data and performance stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes "Can be clustered which allows for fault tolerance". MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, Firebird SQL and Amazon Aurora, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, SQLite and YugabyteDB. See our MariaDB vs. PostgreSQL report.
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