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EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager vs SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

EDB Postgres Enterprise Man...
Ranking in Database Development and Management
21st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SolarWinds Database Perform...
Ranking in Database Development and Management
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager is 1.7%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is 3.8%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer3.8%
EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager1.7%
Other94.5%
Database Development and Management
 

Featured Reviews

Raghu Suthapalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technical Architect at CES
Helps to create dashboards but improvement is needed in pricing and support
The tool helps us to create dashboards EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager helps us to build custom files.  The tool needs improvement in pricing and support.  I have been working with the product for more than eight years.  The product is stable. I rate it a ten out of ten.  I rate the tool's…
reviewer2787105 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Production Database Administration at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Deep query analysis has reduced MTTA and MTTR and now safeguards critical customer workloads
In addition to the features SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer offers, I wish it had more robust performance monitoring and analyzing features for PostgreSQL databases. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is very strong when we come to SQL Server, but it is still lagging when it comes to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is an upcoming enterprise-level database technology in the market. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is still struggling to have a solid monitoring and performance analyzer in comparison to SQL Server. This is one of the features I am looking to SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to develop as soon as possible. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer can be improved in two areas. One is more and robust performance monitoring and analyzing features for PostgreSQL databases. Second, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is still lagging for monitoring the cloud instances of databases including Aurora DB and Cloud SQL DB. These two areas are where SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer needs to work extensively to make this monitoring and performance analyzing robust. From an operational perspective, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer still has a limitation of 250 licenses per instance. This is really a problem for someone with larger server sizes available and more instances running on the same SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer URL. SolarWinds should look at how they can increase that threshold because there should not be a limit of 250 instances.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager helps us to build custom files."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer has positively impacted my organization by monitoring my critical systems serving millions of customers with a couple of hundred licenses of SQL SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer."
"Monitoring is most valuable, and being able to know that there is an issue or problem and I need to go look is also valuable. So, monitoring and learning are the most important features."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is anomaly detection. It alerts you when things outside the norm are happening, and the feature that analyzes your indexes informs you if you have wide or overlapping indexes. It also helps identify SQL query bottlenecks, letting you know if something is taking longer than usual, if a query plan has changed, and if you need to update statistics. In terms of usage, it is straightforward to use, learn and understand. The patching process is smooth and explains each feature, including links to external resources for further reading."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer helped us locate the performance issues quickly."
"In IT, problems often occur in areas such as applications, web interfaces, or databases. The tool allows users to easily determine the root cause of these issues, whether they stem from the network layer, database layer, or elsewhere."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support for older databases and the ability to manage them in a centralized dashboard."
"The platform solves and prevents delays in receiving answers from databases."
 

Cons

"The tool needs improvement in pricing and support."
"The solution should add little details on the server so that an independent team could easily do the implementation."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should include more details on how everything works."
"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should provide customization options allowing users to add different columns."
"It is capable, but I don't believe it has the right value matrix. It also depends on the budget of the company."
"Technical support for this solution needs to be improved."
"One area where the tool could improve is by adding support for additional databases. For instance, supporting newer databases like Couchbase or MongoDB would be beneficial."
"The areas where it currently lags are in reporting and dashboarding. The reports and dashboards are somewhat static, and we cannot create custom dashboards for specific customer needs."
"There is room for improvement with the pricing of the platform."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a little bit expensive."
"There are no extra costs for maintenance or using the solution's support."
"Customers need to pay for the subscription-based license annually."
"It could be less expensive."
"The pricing of the solution is average."
"The pricing is fairly reasonable, and it becomes more cost-effective with larger volumes of instances."
"I don't remember the exact licensing cost for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, but it's within the range of $2,000 to $3,000 a year."
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Healthcare Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

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Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
 

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?
In IT, problems often occur in areas such as applications, web interfaces, or databases. The tool allows users to easily determine the root cause of these issues, whether they stem from the network...
What needs improvement with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?
In addition to the features SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer offers, I wish it had more robust performance monitoring and analyzing features for PostgreSQL databases. SolarWinds Database Pe...
What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?
My main use case for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is as a database performance monitoring tool. My day-to-day purpose of utilizing SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is for monito...
 

Also Known As

EDB PEM
Confio, SolarWinds DPA, Ignite8
 

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Sample Customers

Ericsson, KT Corporation, Clear Capital
GSI Commerce, Liquid Digital Media, ProLogis, Indiana University
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