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PostgreSQL on Ubuntu vs Veeam Backup for AWS comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.4
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is cost-effective, offering 40% savings over commercial databases with no licensing fees and scalability benefits.
Sentiment score
6.1
Veeam Backup for AWS offers ROI with downtime reduction, data protection, cost savings, but pricing concerns exist for low usage.
Since there are no upfront licensing fees, the ROI is increased with a scalable system without exponential cost growth.
Senior software developer at Simplifyvms
Think about if you are in a different geographic location and your cluster is hosted in two different geographic locations, maybe one in South Pacific and one in Western Europe. In both cases, if write transactions are happening, this is a good way to basically order the transactions so that the eventual data consistency is there.
Specialist Programmer L3 at Infosys
If I look into the market, I have very heavy products, and even MySQL is also open source, but PostgreSQL on Ubuntu gives me a lot of savings in terms if I were to go to any other vendor which has a license.
Manager Dev Ops at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We experience a good return on investment with Veeam Backup for AWS as we use it to back up more than one hundred servers, which has been very beneficial.
IT Lead at Meditab Software, Inc.
easy data recovery
Senior Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
It is also a very valuable tool because it has the ability to back up to multiple locations easily, ensuring recovery with minimum downtime and automation of jobs to save time and cost.
Senior Dotnet Developer at Infosys
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
4.8
Users mainly use public resources for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu, with some expressing satisfaction with minimal customer support interactions.
Sentiment score
7.9
Veeam Backup for AWS is praised for excellent, proactive customer support, with high responsiveness and availability ensuring user satisfaction.
Community support is usually helpful in addressing queries and finding solutions to various scenarios.
Director IT at Artizense Hub
Customer support for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is good.
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
support was prompt to ask questions and provided updates to fix the problem quickly.
President at Megasetec
The customer support for Veeam Backup for AWS is excellent, unparalleled, top-notch, and best-in-class.
Senior Frontend Developer at HCL Technologies
I rate the technical support highly because they always help us and fix any issues we encounter.
IT Lead at Meditab Software, Inc.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.9
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is scalable, efficient with complex operations, but requires careful structuring and advanced techniques for vertical scaling.
Sentiment score
8.4
Veeam Backup for AWS is highly rated for its scalability, cost-effectiveness, and efficient handling of large, diverse datasets.
The scalability of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is very good because complex joins are performed smoothly and efficiently.
Senior software developer at Simplifyvms
I do not see any limits in scalability for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu; it scales well without constraints.
Director IT at Artizense Hub
I cannot reduce them back because I do not know what sort of data I need and which sort of data I need to discard. That is a very difficult decision to make.
Manager Dev Ops at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It has helped us back up huge data, and it is easy to retrieve or restore, making it very scalable.
Data Engineer at Genpact - Headstrong
Veeam Backup for AWS's scalability is impressive, as it is scalable and handles all the data in my organization securely.
Regional Sales Manager at Novartis
It is able to handle any data, whether huge or small, very effectively.
Senior Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is praised for its stability, reliability, and scalability, especially for businesses handling financial transactions.
Sentiment score
8.9
Veeam Backup for AWS is praised for exceptional stability and reliability with efficient support, ensuring dependable performance across environments.
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is quite stable.
Specialist Programmer L3 at Infosys
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is handling my production infrastructures very well and it is going very good.
Manager Dev Ops at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is stable in my experience because at one time there are more than one user using PostgreSQL on Ubuntu, and it properly provides answers to every user.
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The reliability and stability of Veeam Backup for AWS are commendable.
IT Lead at Meditab Software, Inc.
Veeam Backup for AWS is very stable, fast, and reliable.
Regional Sales Manager at Novartis
I have noticed no crashing or downtime.
Senior Dotnet Developer at Infosys
 

Room For Improvement

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu needs AI integration, UI updates, improved documentation, asynchronous replication, index tools, and enhanced user experience.
Veeam Backup for AWS needs enhancements in reporting, integration, security, cost management, and OS compatibility to boost user satisfaction.
Maybe it makes more sense to use AI for configuration in future updates of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu so that the database is automatically optimized for the best performance for a given hardware.
Head of IT at Givo Pvt Ltd
I would also appreciate the ability to use the EXPLAIN ANALYZE tool.
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Optimizing index management such as adding proper indexes and removing unused ones.
Senior software developer at Simplifyvms
The product would benefit from adding more security features and improving compatibility with other operating systems like IBM AIX.
President at Megasetec
People must be aware of the costs associated with Veeam Backup for AWS and try to manage them. Be aware of it because this is a sudden cost and a surprising cost - what I would say is a hidden cost.
Lead Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see features such as live replication that should allow immediate restoration with minimal time and minimal configuration.
IT Lead at Meditab Software, Inc.
 

Setup Cost

Veeam Backup for AWS is valued for affordability, ease of setup, features, and proactive support, despite licensing cost concerns.
We were on the lowest tier, so it was around $5 or something.
Head of IT at Givo Pvt Ltd
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is based on the fact that I am using it as a free source, free open source.
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The price model for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is not expensive; it is affordable since most solutions we use are completely open source, leading to lower costs.
Director IT at Artizense Hub
very cost-effective and affordable
Senior Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Veeam Backup for AWS licensing costs are high.
President at Megasetec
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Veeam Backup for AWS was good because the setup cost is low.
Head Cloud Services (Infra & Systems) at Anvek
 

Valuable Features

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu offers robust production support with scalability, community backing, and advanced features for efficient data management.
Veeam Backup for AWS offers reliable, fast backups with security, cost management, and easy AWS integration, enhancing disaster recovery.
One of the most important points about PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is that it is free.
Head of IT at Givo Pvt Ltd
Overall, PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is a powerful and reliable database management system; it is easy to use and good for students who want to move beyond basic and industry-level skills.
Student at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Any open-source software allows me to look into the code, understand the logic, and mold my code according to it, and it will work perfectly rather than proprietary solutions where I am very much dependent on the vendor and have to wait for their next release to fix things.
Manager Dev Ops at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The features of Veeam Backup for AWS are very easy to use, quick to deploy, offer faster recovery, top-notch security, easy to manage, and cost-effective.
Senior Frontend Developer at HCL Technologies
Veeam Backup for AWS helps us to protect our data from accidental deletion and store data offsite in AWS, so in case a disaster happens in our data center, we can retrieve the data from AWS.
IT Lead at Meditab Software, Inc.
Veeam Backup for AWS has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime and data losses, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation, achieving cost savings of approximately 60 to 70 percent, providing ease of use and deployment, offering comprehensive backup and recovery features, and ensuring scalable performance has been high.
Data Engineer at Genpact - Headstrong
 

Categories and Ranking

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Operating Systems (OS) for Business (31st)
Veeam Backup for AWS
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu and Veeam Backup for AWS aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is designed for Operating Systems (OS) for Business and holds a mindshare of 0.4%.
Veeam Backup for AWS, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Backup, holds 0.4% mindshare.
Operating Systems (OS) for Business Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu0.4%
Rocky Linux10.2%
Ubuntu Linux8.8%
Other80.6%
Operating Systems (OS) for Business
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veeam Backup for AWS0.4%
Veeam Data Platform8.2%
Commvault Cloud6.0%
Other85.4%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Pranay Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior software developer at Simplifyvms
Robust relational queries have supported secure user data growth and improve transaction safety
The best features PostgreSQL on Ubuntu offers are complex joins, which allow us to perform advanced SQL queries, providing the atomicity of our tables, ACID properties for transaction safety, and scalability that we can expand to, as we currently have 10 lakh users, and it is easily scalable. Complex joins are the best feature that PostgreSQL on Ubuntu provides because I have been using NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB, but PostgreSQL has better efficiency for complex queries when used correctly. PostgreSQL on Ubuntu has positively impacted our organization because, from the initial phase with around 1,000 plus users during user accessibility testing, we defined the tables in such a manner that even with future scalability increases, it would function well, and now it has grown to 10 lakh users, still holding up well with fast data retrieval and good query performance, supported by effective indexing methods. In our user table with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu, we initially added indexing on the email property, but after a while, we found that the phone number field was also frequently used, and adding indexing to it improved our query retrieving speed and efficiency by almost 20 to 30 percent.
Gegax Robert - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Seamless backups have transformed data protection and now safeguard critical workloads
The best features Veeam Backup for AWS offers are that it is fast and reliable, easy to use, creates image backups of PostgreSQL, allows upgrading full functions using the AWS plugin package, and enables using a single console to manage data protection and recovery. Veeam Backup for AWS has positively impacted my organization by solving the challenges of managing backup in complex AWS environments. Its features such as data deduplication and compression offered at a good price are very cost-effective. Backups are also very powerful and easy when using Veeam Backup for AWS software. Since using Veeam Backup for AWS, I have seen specific outcomes such as reduced downtime and data loss by 80% from 60%, along with compliance and risk mitigation and cost savings since it is very easy and cost-effective.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
40%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Engineering Company
6%
Construction Company
26%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu?
For the Software as a Service version, we were using PostgreSQL on Ubuntu and paid some amount. It was not a very large amount for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu. We were on the lowest tier, so it was around...
What needs improvement with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu?
From an improvement perspective, the UI of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu can be somewhat better because from my experience, it is outdated compared to current UI generations, and the reliability without cha...
What is your primary use case for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu?
The main use case for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is storing the database and serving as our primary database for storing the credentials of users and other information, including candidate data and enter...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veeam Backup for AWS?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, the price is very affordable and cost-effective.
What needs improvement with Veeam Backup for AWS?
Veeam Backup for AWS should provide a hybrid solution, and the user interface needs to be more user-friendly. The initial setup was a bit complex, especially for non-technical users.I believe a hyb...
What is your primary use case for Veeam Backup for AWS?
I have been using Veeam Backup for AWS since 2018 and it is one of the best backup solutions available. The software is easy to implement, support, and especially recover information when needed. T...
 

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