We performed a comparison between Chroma and PostgreSQL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Vector Databases solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's most valuable feature is its documentation, which allows new users to easily learn, deploy, and use it."
"It's very easy to set up and runs easily."
"The product is easy to use and works fast for relational databases."
"Initial setup is simple."
"It is a pretty comprehensive database system. Its performance is good, and it does what it is supposed to do. It also integrates very well."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"Scalable, stable, and easy to manage database system, with a straightforward installation."
"The solution is open-source and free to use."
"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 product is very similar to the SQL Server."
"I think Chroma doesn't have a ready-made containerized image available."
"The hybrid algorithm needs improvement."
"It could be more secure."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"Instead of the installation agent downloading all the packages for the install, it should allow the user to download the packages separately on their own to do the install."
"The search option is not very good."
"It would be good to have machine learning functionality in this solution, similar to Microsoft SQL Server and other solutions. Machine learning capability for a basic level or a common user would be useful. It can also have good reporting capabilities."
"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."
"The database and applications can become very slow."
Chroma is ranked 3rd in Vector Databases with 2 reviews while PostgreSQL is ranked 5th in Vector Databases with 123 reviews. Chroma is rated 8.6, while PostgreSQL is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Chroma writes "Used for RAG (Retrieval-augmented generation) and provides good documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PostgreSQL writes " Real-time data capture optimizes database performance but Views create problems". Chroma is most compared with Faiss, LanceDB, Redis, Milvus and OpenSearch, whereas PostgreSQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite. See our Chroma vs. PostgreSQL report.
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