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PostgreSQL vs SingleStore comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

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
7.5
SingleStore offers cost efficiency, versatility, and scalability, providing seamless setup and substantial ROI with minimal hassle and complexity.
I have seen a return on investment in terms of time saved.
Devops Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The objective was to scale as data loads with high-performing query model responses.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

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
7.8
SingleStore offers 24/7 support with a dedicated team, interactive UI, and personalized service, receiving high user 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
This is definitely giving positive results on product efficiency and product cost.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
Their team is capable of resolving issues efficiently, allowing users to create tickets and receive support.
Devops Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The customer support is very proactive and responsive twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

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
7.3
SingleStore scales efficiently with minimal downtime, offering seamless integration and optimal performance, ideal for organizations without budget constraints.
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
SingleStore's scalability is high and it can be used by any size of organization and can handle any needs of any organization.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

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
8.3
SingleStore is highly rated for stability, ensuring continuous operation despite errors, with strong redundancy and maintenance capabilities.
I have never seen any performance issue in PostgreSQL.
Data Science Architect at publicis Sapient
I have not seen any downtime.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Room For Improvement

Users want improved PostgreSQL user-friendliness, query optimization, BI integration, scalability, multi-master replication, and enhanced documentation.
SingleStore faces challenges in documentation, SQL features, integration, and support, with room for improvement in various areas.
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
Error handling needs attention. When it fails due to memory, it only indicates that but not exactly in which process it failed.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
The data which is sent to DataDog sometimes does not match with the SingleStore dashboard.
Devops Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

PostgreSQL is a cost-effective, open-source database offering flexibility, scalability, and optional support, ideal for businesses with budget constraints.
SingleStore offers transparent pricing, with cost-effective enterprise licenses and free licensing for small self-managed installations.
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
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it can be a bit expensive for startups.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Valuable Features

PostgreSQL offers robust geospatial support, extensibility, performance, scalability, and diverse features, making it a highly valued open-source database.
SingleStore excels in speed, distributed architecture, and usability, offering fast data handling, MySQL support, and robust failover.
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
SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
SingleStore has impacted my organization positively because the output and performance of the app have been improved.
Devops Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

PostgreSQL
Ranking in Vector Databases
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
127
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (1st)
SingleStore
Ranking in Vector Databases
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Vector Databases category, the mindshare of PostgreSQL is 7.9%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SingleStore is 3.0%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vector Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PostgreSQL7.9%
SingleStore3.0%
Other89.1%
Vector 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.
Kelvin  Ben - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
Real-time analytics has transformed daily decisions and delivers fast dashboards from streaming data
The best features SingleStore offers include fast data recovery and data compression by 80 percent. Having the information in sheets helps me to process the information quickly. Simplicity in T-SQL is another aspect I appreciate. Data recovery and sheet-based processing help my team on a day-to-day basis by enabling us to handle information efficiently. I would like to add that the data compression by 80 percent helps us in an excellent way since we are very fast in obtaining the data for our dashboards and the compression of the information is great. SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone. It has been very helpful because our internal clients are happy to have the data and make data-driven decisions easily. Making decisions based on data within a two-hour delay to the transactional database is excellent since we went from twenty-four hours to two hours. I think the best contribution is decision-making with data that is close to reality. Reducing that delay from twenty-four hours to two hours has significantly affected my team and business outcomes by increasing productivity. We have been able to serve all our customers, and they are very happy. We can deliver to them on time.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise47
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise4
 

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 do you like most about PostgreSQL?
It's a transactional database, so we use Postgres for most of our reporting. That's where it's helping.
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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SingleStore DB?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it can be a bit expensive for startups, but for my organization, the cost is affordable and cost-effective.
What needs improvement with SingleStore DB?
I have noticed that SingleStore can be improved because the integration of SingleStore with DataDog is not good. The data which is sent to DataDog sometimes does not match with the SingleStore dash...
What is your primary use case for SingleStore DB?
My main use case for SingleStore is for our data retention and load management. We have infrastructure wherein the user's data are used for quick search, which means the searching functionality in ...
 

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