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PostgreSQL vs Qdrant comparison

 

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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
7.0
PostgreSQL's open-source nature offers cost savings, quick ROI, and improved performance, beneficial for both startups and growing enterprises.
Sentiment score
5.2
Qdrant's integration streamlined support ticket resolution, enhancing efficiency and cost-effectiveness through improved retrieval and self-service capabilities.
Thanks to Qdrant's open-source nature, our initial licensing and setup costs were nearly zero, allowing for swift testing and launch of our RAG prototype.
Automation Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The time saved is substantial, with nearly three weeks or more for projects deployed with Qdrant Cloud in no-code platforms.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
I have seen a significant return on investment from using Qdrant because it is very easy to integrate and highly efficient, saving a lot of time in my day-to-day operations, which ultimately saves money as well.
Full Stack Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.7
PostgreSQL support is community-driven, with robust third-party services and comprehensive documentation, but lacks centralized official support.
Sentiment score
5.4
Qdrant's community-driven approach provides ample online resources and documentation, minimizing direct customer support needs and enhancing satisfaction.
If PostgreSQL is hosted on cloud services such as Amazon RDS or Google Cloud SQL, the support is handled by the cloud provider, who provides automated backups, monitoring, infrastructure management, and technical support tickets.
Software developer at Student
Overall, we have a very small customer service team and a good engineering team with no overburden or bandwidth issues.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
It's open source, so we house it on our server.
Chief Ai Scientist at Predictive Systems
The documentation provided by Qdrant covers most queries effectively.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
I rate the technical support of Qdrant as a nine because I think we have never reached out to them directly, but Qdrant has good support available online, and I can get answers from forums.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
PostgreSQL effectively manages scalability with high transaction volumes, excelling in cloud environments and benefiting from cost-effective open-source expansion.
Sentiment score
5.5
Qdrant's scalability in Docker enables efficient expansion and performance with multiple CPUs, attracting migrations from alternative solutions.
Now, we are doing the same level of transactions in PostgreSQL, around 100,000 transactions, and we are getting good throughput with no latency.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
In the recruiting agency project, the reliance on the vector database has expanded from storing hundreds of resumes to thousands.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
When Qdrant is deployed in Docker, it scales really fast, and you can assign multiple CPUs to enhance performance.
Analyst at Synergy Connect
Qdrant handles growing workloads and data volumes well for me, which was a significant reason for my shift from other popular alternatives to Qdrant.
Full Stack Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
PostgreSQL is praised for stability and reliability, outperforming MySQL and often preferred over Oracle for dependable performance.
Sentiment score
7.7
Qdrant is stable, reliable, easy to use, but inactive clouds terminate after a week, affecting continuous hosting.
I have never seen any performance issue in PostgreSQL.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
You need to patch Qdrant as soon as patches are released.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
It is easy to use whether on LangChain or on its own.
Full Stack Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Qdrant is stable, except for the limitation concerning the termination of inactive clouds after a week.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Users want improved PostgreSQL user-friendliness, query optimization, BI integration, scalability, multi-master replication, and enhanced documentation.
Qdrant requires UI enhancements, improved backup management, and integrated automation to address operational complexities and improve features.
Query optimization improves slow queries by using proper indexes, avoiding unnecessary joins, and using EXPLAIN ANALYZE to inspect query plans.
Software developer at Student
If I need to increase the dimension to 3,000 or 5,000, that option should be available.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
Fast large-scale filtering operations could be implemented, such as automatic index suggestions, adaptive query planning, and smart indexing of metadata fields, which would make Qdrant even more efficient.
Full Stack Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
While it has clustering functionality, it is not easy to set up, and not everyone can configure the clustering, so there is room for improvement in the clustering configuration.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
Incorporating embedding features directly in Qdrant Cloud would eliminate the need to depend on external solutions.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

PostgreSQL is a cost-effective, open-source database offering flexibility, scalability, and optional support, ideal for businesses with budget constraints.
Qdrant offers cost-effective enterprise pricing but scaling may require migrating to paid plans for advanced features and support.
Even with doing 100,000 transactions right now within PostgreSQL, we are happy with PostgreSQL and not seeing that it is expensive or going out of budget.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
Using Qdrant is free.
Chief Ai Scientist at Predictive Systems
Regarding pricing, setup costs, and licensing, since I am using only the free tier of Qdrant Cloud, there are no setup costs involved.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Licensing posed no issues, as Qdrant is open-source software with no upfront fees.
Automation Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

PostgreSQL offers robust geospatial support, extensibility, performance, scalability, and diverse features, making it a highly valued open-source database.
Qdrant enhances search precision using hybrid vectors, offers cost-effective deployment, and supports efficient AI handling with flexible APIs.
PostgreSQL improves reliability, performance, and scalability in production. Since it is ACID compliant, it ensures that database transactions are safe and consistent, preventing partial data updates, maintaining data integrity, and allowing multiple users to read or write data simultaneously using MVCC.
Software developer at Student
The best feature is performance, because of which I decided on PostgreSQL.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
The ability of Qdrant to handle high-dimensional vectors for my AI projects is pretty fast, and I think it's the best we have used so far.
Chief Ai Scientist at Predictive Systems
An accuracy boost was definitely observed from 45 to 50% using Faiss to around 85 to 95% using Qdrant, and the users are really happy as they are getting suggested really good schemes that would take a lot of time to find.
Analyst at Synergy Connect
The best features of Qdrant are GPU support, which enables very fast processing, and a very light footprint as it uses fewer resources.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
 

Categories and Ranking

PostgreSQL
Ranking in Open Source Databases
2nd
Ranking in Vector Databases
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
127
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Qdrant
Ranking in Open Source Databases
9th
Ranking in Vector Databases
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of PostgreSQL is 13.1%, down from 18.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qdrant is 4.5%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PostgreSQL13.1%
Qdrant4.5%
Other82.4%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Shobhit Goel - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
High-volume transactions have reduced failures and improve customer service efficiency
The best feature is performance, because of which I decided on PostgreSQL. I have also enabled the PG vector plugin on top of PostgreSQL. I have the opportunity to use two different features and two different flavors in a single product, which is the best thing about PostgreSQL. Initially, we had some hiccups around the performance part, but later we did indexing in PostgreSQL and now it is working very well. Even when we are doing 100,000 transactions in a day, PostgreSQL is working excellently. The interface is another best feature. If I need to do any query, I simply install the plugin on my local, which is pgAdmin. Through pgAdmin, I am able to communicate with PostgreSQL and execute all my SQL queries. I am getting a better UI with PostgreSQL as the backend, which is also one of the best options. PG vector is also very strong from PostgreSQL where I have implemented RAG and on a daily basis, I inject thousands of pages of PDF. More than 100 PDFs are coming into my system and one PDF is around 1,000 pages. We are injecting them into PostgreSQL and converting them into dimensions and inserting them into PG vector. The level of transactions we are doing on a daily basis is substantial, and we are getting very good throughput and low latency from PostgreSQL. When we were doing more than 50,000 transactions in a minute with the previous database, we were getting a lot of latency issues with threads getting blocked and abruptly closed unwantedly. After doing extensive research, we decided to move to PostgreSQL. Now, we are doing around 100,000 transactions in PostgreSQL and we are getting good throughput with no latency.
Chirag Morajkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Building accurate no-code resume screeners has saved weeks in document search workflows
I see room for improvement in Qdrant based on what another platform called Weaviate offers. Qdrant provides an excellent vector database with a solid searching method. However, it could elevate its offering by integrating embedding features. Currently, for the workflow automation I build, I rely on other platforms for embedding, so incorporating this feature directly in Qdrant Cloud would eliminate the need to depend on external solutions. A pain point I have encountered was the inactive expiration of the cloud created for certain projects. If the cloud is not used for a week, it gets terminated, which is frustrating. I think increasing that inactivity window in the free tier would be beneficial, as I have faced limitations due to this seven-day inactivity rule, requiring me to reset up the cloud after its termination.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise48
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
 

Questions from the Community

How does Firebird SQL compare with PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL was designed in a way that provides you with not only a high degree of flexibility but also offers you a cheap and easy-to-use solution. It gives you the ability to redesign and audit yo...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PostgreSQL?
I purchased from the marketplace, so licensing and pricing cost is acceptable. To be honest, there is a separate team who handles the cost of licensing everything. I have admin access on Azure and ...
What needs improvement with PostgreSQL?
The only thing for PG vector is if the dimension limit could be increased. Currently, the dimension limit is around 1,000 to 1,052. If I need to increase the dimension to 3,000 or 5,000, that optio...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qdrant?
Licensing posed no issues, as Qdrant is open-source software with no upfront fees. Initially, the setup cost was low since we utilized a self-hosted model on a small cloud VM. However, as we added ...
What needs improvement with Qdrant?
While Qdrant is an exceptionally fast and efficient search engine within vector bases, our engineering team faced operational challenges during its adoption. Architectural complexity was a key fric...
What is your primary use case for Qdrant?
I have been using Qdrant for almost one and a half years. This was actually one of the first vector databases that we picked up in our organization. We started using the RAG modules to create a per...
 

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