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EDB Postgres Advanced Server vs MariaDB comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

EDB Postgres Advanced Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MariaDB
Ranking in Open Source Databases
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of EDB Postgres Advanced Server is 5.6%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MariaDB is 11.0%, down from 16.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Munirathnakumar Si - PeerSpot reviewer
Though user-friendly, it fails to offer a mobile application to users
The product currently fails to offer a mobile application. In the future, I want the solution to offer a mobile application, especially since you can access the services via mobile phone with all the service providers like AWS and others. A mobile application provided by the product can help a user to see the status whenever needed.
KumarManish - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to deploy, cost-effective, and integrates seamlessly with other products
We had planned for an RDBMS version and not NoSQL. We use MariaDB Galera Cluster. It's a good product. It is cheap, scalable, performs well, and is efficient. We use GCP’s BigQuery for machine learning. We must follow the best practices of the tool. We missed some best practices like the storage engine and InnoDB. It was very difficult to identify why we were having performance issues. Then, we realized that some of our tables were still on MyISAM, the default storage engine. When we switched it back to the InnoDB, it was very smooth. InnoDB is the recommended one. We must follow the best practices given in the documentation during the initial setup. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It gives us a solid, less expensive alternative to deploying with Oracle."
"The feature of vector database management for AI is quite interesting and impactful."
"Postgres is highly compatible with many software and programming languages. Its compatibility is excellent, covering nearly everything related to data engineering or migration."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The low cost and functionality allows us to save money on smaller database projects."
"I rate EDB Postgres Advanced Server's stability an eight out of ten."
"I like that EDB Postgres Advanced Server scales well. A valuable feature of the solution is multi-tenancy support. It also supports JSONB."
"The solution's features have effectively met our operational requirements as a standard SQL database."
"MariaDB is a fast and flexible tool."
"Installation is straightforward."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a relational database, which is fairly reliable...It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup of MariaDB is simple enough."
"It's open source."
"The integration with other products is seamless."
 

Cons

"The product currently fails to offer a mobile application."
"I have faced performance issues in the community edition."
"The system is aging and not keeping up with the performance of new, enhanced database models."
"The security is not very robust and the product would be much more useful with more security options."
"An area for improvement in EDB Postgres Advanced Server is JSONB querying. It would be nice to have even stronger JSONB support from the solution."
"I would like to see improvements in the performance, especially in large-scale operations, as it currently cannot match Oracle's performance."
"It would be helpful if I could specify multiple drives for the database storage."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"The difficult part related to the product stems not from the tool itself but is related to learning how to implement the product in the right way without creating any wrong configuration that could cause security issues or performance issues."
"The dashboard and pricing need improvement."
"An improvement would be scaling it up to the levels of Oracle, especially when it comes to resilience, so that we can do higher transactions for two databases or power our operation."
"Maria DB has to improve from a management perspective."
"Could have more integration with user platforms."
"I’m not sure if it can scale."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source product."
"Pricing is significantly lower than competing products."
"EDB Postgres Advanced Server is open source, so I don't pay for licensing."
"I have been working on the community edition."
"The product is either free with community support or very inexpensive with a small yearly fee for paid support."
"When it comes to MariaDB, it should have a more cost-effective license."
"I rate the product's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price since there are some support costs involved, even though it isn't an open-source solution."
"MariaDB is available for free."
"It is an open-source solution."
"MariaDB is a free-to-use solution."
"The solution is free, but if you want the enterprise version you will need to pay for some licenses but the cost is less than other solutions, such as Oracle."
"The product is not expensive."
"My company uses the free version of the solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?
I rate EDB Postgres Advanced Server's stability an eight out of ten.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for EDB Postgres Advanced Server?
EDB Postgres Advanced Server offers both processor-based and user-based licensing options. The cost is reasonable, particularly for middle and lower-tier customers, but there are hiccups when deali...
What needs improvement with EDB Postgres Advanced Server?
I would like to see improvements in the performance, especially in large-scale operations, as it currently cannot match Oracle's performance. Additionally, multi-tenancy architecture, microservices...
What do you like most about MariaDB?
The integration with other products is seamless.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MariaDB?
I have found the price of commercial MariaDB to be pretty steep, although not as high as Oracle. Customers often prefer the Community Edition because it's free.
What needs improvement with MariaDB?
The only potential area for improvement could be the pricing model, which might benefit from being more flexible or a bit cheaper.
 

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Sample Customers

Ericsson, Clear Capital, PinkRoccade, ABN Amro, WholeWorldBand, Van Genechten, Gallinat-Bank AG, Mariner, coresystems, Aquent, Contegix, AQA, Genscape, InMobi
Google, Wikipedia, Tencent, Verizon, DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, Telefónica, Huatai Securities
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