We performed a comparison between Percona Server and PostgreSQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and others in Open Source Databases."We find the product mostly stable."
"Clustering will be the number 1 feature. It is also open-source so it is free. It can also be clustered, to allow fault tolerance."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"PostgreSQL makes it very adaptable to several descriptions of a record. Instead of having several tables or several relations for one entity, I can adapt this entity. It can be a multiform entity. For example, here in Mexico, a company and a person can be sold to us as a physical entity or a physical person."
"The database has excellent performance."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"We often use PostgreSQL for operations monitoring because we are a manufacturing company."
"The initial setup is quick and easy."
"It is easy to use."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
"The scalability is limited."
"It still needs to be more mature and have some backup feature. We are normally dealing with Oracle's data, and we have very strong online tools to back up the data and do other things. PostgreSQL still needs to do more in this area as well as in the high availability area. There are many external tools that you can use for PostgreSQL's high availability, but there is no embedded tool within PostgreSQL for high availability. It could have a feature similar to Oracle for working on a distributed system. It can have some scripts to improve the monitoring and some tools to do performance analysis. We have a workaround for most of such requirements except for the support for a distributed system, which is very difficult to have. This area should be included in the core of the database itself."
"We have to set up event API, which takes a lot of events from the user."
"There are several features I would like to improve that aren't working as expected. It's likely that the latest version is doing something that was missed in the previous versions. For example, the output parameters — the stored procedures — is something new in PostgreSQL that Firebird has already had for a long time."
"It is possible that in the newer version this has been addressed, but I would like the deployment in microservices architecture could be improved."
"They need to improve the user experience of the management."
"If it was free to use, it would be the perfect solution."
"It would be great if the solution offered even more integration capabilities."
Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 2 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 2nd in Open Source Databases with 120 reviews. Percona Server is rated 7.6, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " A scalable and stable database for transactional purposes". Percona Server is most compared with MariaDB, MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB and Weaviate.
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