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PostgreSQL on Ubuntu vs openSUSE Leap comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

openSUSE Leap
Ranking in Operating Systems (OS) for Business
14th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PostgreSQL on Ubuntu
Ranking in Operating Systems (OS) for Business
31st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

NK
Senior Manager at Cognizant
Provides BTRFS file system, which allows you to take snapshots
I only use the tool for testing purposes on my team, but multiple people use it. We don't make a team effort to install the solution. When it comes to maintenance, we ask our company to buy SUSE Linux Enterprise. My team consists of 13 people. We are currently integrating the solution with Ansible to do some coding. Although not a full-fledged automation, we are integrating the solution with Ansible and executing a couple of playbooks connected to openSUSE Leap. I would recommend the solution to other users looking for an open-source solution. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Pranay Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at hireHQ
Robust relational queries have supported secure user data growth and improve transaction safety
The best features PostgreSQL on Ubuntu offers are complex joins, which allow us to perform advanced SQL queries, providing the atomicity of our tables, ACID properties for transaction safety, and scalability that we can expand to, as we currently have 10 lakh users, and it is easily scalable. Complex joins are the best feature that PostgreSQL on Ubuntu provides because I have been using NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB, but PostgreSQL has better efficiency for complex queries when used correctly. PostgreSQL on Ubuntu has positively impacted our organization because, from the initial phase with around 1,000 plus users during user accessibility testing, we defined the tables in such a manner that even with future scalability increases, it would function well, and now it has grown to 10 lakh users, still holding up well with fast data retrieval and good query performance, supported by effective indexing methods. In our user table with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu, we initially added indexing on the email property, but after a while, we found that the phone number field was also frequently used, and adding indexing to it improved our query retrieving speed and efficiency by almost 20 to 30 percent.

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Pros

"Stable - it just runs without the necessity to reboot."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the BTRFS file system, which allows you to take snapshots."
"openSUSE Leap has helped me with using containers in Podman."
"The most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"The solution is very stable after it is configured. It is hard to have a panel slow, a problem, misconfiguration, or any kind of loss function."
"The solution is easy for me to use because the backend is derived from FreeBSD and this is something I have been using for over 20 years."
"PostgreSQL on Ubuntu has positively impacted my organization by being very reliable; it has solid recovery and the risk of data loss is very low, making it very robust and ideal for production projects."
"PostgreSQL on Ubuntu offers reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness, which were the primary factors in our decision to choose this database."
"PostgreSQL on Ubuntu has positively impacted our organization because, from the initial phase with around 1,000 plus users during user accessibility testing, we defined the tables in such a manner that even with future scalability increases, it would function well, and now it has grown to 10 lakh users, still holding up well with fast data retrieval and good query performance, supported by effective indexing methods."
"We have worked with various databases including SQL Server and MySQL, but I found PostgreSQL on Ubuntu to be the most cost-effective and most performance-friendly solution."
"The best feature of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is its structure because it adds clarity and understanding when investigating a database, which enhances readability and understandability for someone new to the project."
"The best advantage of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is its ability to fulfill all our requirements as an RDBMS; we frequently use various database-related operations such as storing, retrieving, and utilizing views and triggers, and its concurrency and connection handling are very efficient, especially since we have around 1,000 users."
 

Cons

"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"It would be helpful if we could easily switch from openSUSE Leap for testing to SUSE Linux Enterprise for production."
"I would like openSUSE Leap to have better link integration with Windows."
"There is room for improvement in the console."
"Like most Linux-based operating systems, the biggest challenge Leap faces is the GUI."
"Somehow the change from OS12.x via 13.x to Leap was a bit bumpy and some old issues seemed to reappear."
"PostgreSQL on Ubuntu can be improved because it is a bit slower than other solutions I have used."
"I did notice one downside about PostgreSQL on Ubuntu. Certain queries were not behaving in the same way that SQL Server was handling those queries."
"PostgreSQL on Ubuntu can be improved in terms of flexibility, which comes at a cost—specifically its learning curve and complexity."
"From an improvement perspective, the UI of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu can be somewhat better because from my experience, it is outdated compared to current UI generations, and the reliability without changing the entire system architecture can also be improved, along with optimizing index management such as adding proper indexes and removing unused ones."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of this solution was reasonable and it was within our budget."
"openSUSE Leap is an open-source solution that is free of cost."
"The solution is open-source."
"This is an open-source operating system that can be used free of charge."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
19%
Educational Organization
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with openSUSE Leap?
Both openSUSE Leap and the SUSE Enterprise version use the same kernel. Suppose I have a lower environment where I can run openSUSE to test all my products. It would be helpful if I could easily sw...
What is your primary use case for openSUSE Leap?
I use openSUSE Leap for testing purposes. Before officially using any server in our office, we test it using the solution. My office usually uses production servers on the SUSE Linux enterprise ver...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for openSUSE Leap?
openSUSE Leap is an open-source solution that is free of cost.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu?
For the Software as a Service version, we were using PostgreSQL on Ubuntu and paid some amount. It was not a very large amount for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu. We were on the lowest tier, so it was around...
What needs improvement with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu?
From an improvement perspective, the UI of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu can be somewhat better because from my experience, it is outdated compared to current UI generations, and the reliability without cha...
What is your primary use case for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu?
The main use case for PostgreSQL on Ubuntu is storing the database and serving as our primary database for storing the credentials of users and other information, including candidate data and enter...
 

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