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Percona Server vs PostgreSQL comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Percona Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
15th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PostgreSQL
Ranking in Open Source Databases
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
127
Ranking in other categories
Vector Databases (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of Percona Server is 2.4%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PostgreSQL is 13.3%, down from 18.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PostgreSQL13.3%
Percona Server2.4%
Other84.3%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Frederico De Almeida - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Embratur
Clustered databases have improved consistency and reduced downtime for critical applications
Percona Server offers excellent scalability and easy configuration. The configuration feature is particularly valuable to me because adding a new server requires minimal effort, which streamlines my workflow. Database consistency is the most important feature for me. Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime for applications and improving backup capabilities. Percona Server has improved downtime and backup management by making it easy to switch to another server when necessary, and it includes built-in backup functionality.
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by providing a consistent database and persistence, and it reduces the downtime for the replication of applications during disasters."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime for applications and improving backup capabilities."
"We find the product mostly stable."
"In my use of Percona Server, I've found that the replication and High Availability features are the most valuable."
"What I like is that it's quite powerful in terms of performance."
"It's a useful solution, that can be widely used."
"We are able to create many different types of jobs and items with this solution making it one of the most valuable features."
"It is a world class, performer, a scalable database that is free and open source."
"It is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"Out of all the open source database applications available, PostgreSQL is among the best DB storage engines with a single unified database server unlike MySQL which supports multiple storage engines for storing the data."
"What I like is that it's quite powerful in terms of performance."
 

Cons

"Percona Server could be improved by adding more advanced query fields, which would be very helpful."
"More material would be helpful for understanding how to further optimize the implementation."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
"It doesn't reclaim disk space when rows are deleted."
"PostgreSQL uses high memory compared to its counterparts when a highly demanding load is involved, especially one that makes many concurrent connections to the database."
"It requires enterprise integration improvements from the security, and audit perspective (AD integration etc.). Also, integration into existing BI tools is not present."
"PostgreSQL could improve by providing a geographical solution for tracking trucks and people in the field. They might already have features similar to this and I have not found them. I haven't done research about this topic."
"One of the features it needs is a tighter integration with business intelligence software, so that the optimisation of the requests can be handled natively in the database."
"Extensibility could be even better as there are still too many things that require programming in C to add to the database."
"PostgreSQL could improve by adding data warehousing tools."
"I would like to have better support for real-time applications."
"I had some issues when I integrated with the Jupyter Notebook."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is free. In terms of operating costs, it basically needs the same platform on which Oracle runs."
"It is free, but if you need support, you can go for the commercial version called EnterpriseDB. They provide paid support, and they can even do hosting for you if you want standby and support."
"It is also open-source so it is free."
"The need for our customers to pay for licences is contingent on their projects and budgets."
"Our company pays for it. There are free versions available, but for advanced features, you obviously have to pay."
"The licensing model is good."
"There is an annual license."
"It is open-source. If you use it on-premise, it is free. It also has enterprise or commercial versions. If you go for the cloud version, there will be a cost, but it is lower than Oracle or Microsoft."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise47
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Percona Server?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I am using the free version.
What needs improvement with Percona Server?
Percona Server could be improved by adding more advanced query fields, which would be very helpful.
What is your primary use case for Percona Server?
Percona Server is my main solution for electronic information systems, and I use Percona XtraDB Cluster for this purpose. Percona Server has facilitated the configuration of clusters compared to us...
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 ...
 

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