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PostgreSQL vs VictoriaMetrics comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

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)
VictoriaMetrics
Ranking in Open Source Databases
17th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (47th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of PostgreSQL is 13.3%, down from 18.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VictoriaMetrics is 1.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PostgreSQL13.3%
VictoriaMetrics1.7%
Other85.0%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Yess Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
SRE at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
High-performance monitoring has reduced costs and now supports long-term observability
Overall, VictoriaMetrics is a very strong tool. One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources. While the documentation is good, some advanced use cases and configuration could be explained more clearly with real-world examples. Another improvement would be the UI and built-in visualization. VictoriaMetrics mainly relies on tools like Grafana, so having a more feature-rich native UI for basic monitoring and exploration would be helpful. On the integration side, while it works great with Prometheus and Grafana, expanding native integration with more tools like CI/CD platforms, alerting systems, and cloud-native services would be beneficial. In terms of support and troubleshooting, having more built-in diagnostics or guided debugging tools would be helpful. Right now, when issues happen, it often relies on logs and external tools. Also, for enterprise usage, strong features like RBAC, audit logs, and multi-tenant management would be enhanced. The improvements would include UI and built-in visualization. Also, query complexity can be a bit challenging for new users. Simplifying it or providing better guidance for query building would improve usability. Finally, enterprise features and ecosystem integration could be expanded further.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Initial setup is simple."
"Its installation is very easy and quick, and it is free."
"We switch to this solution due to its stability and that it is open source."
"With the database, you can provide a multi-component at the same service with the same performance, scalability, or all those things."
"You can do the same actions as you can with the SQL Server."
"Overall, the solution is very good. The solution is free to use. It is easy to use and quite stable."
"PostgreSQL is an open source database engine that is very powerful, highly configurable, and more flexible than MySQL or MariaDB because you can create several databases with many schemas and define roles like owners, not only grants over tables or procedures."
"The solution has many valuable features such as it is easy to use and the interface is intuitive."
"VictoriaMetrics is an excellent solution for time-series monitoring with outstanding performance."
 

Cons

"In future releases I would like to see built-in realization of multi-master cluster with sharding, effective partitioning, incremental backup, optimizations for SSD, connection pool facilities, and built-in replication for tables and databases."
"We have to set up event API, which takes a lot of events from the user."
"If it was free to use, it would be the perfect solution."
"It could be easier to perform some fragmentation in the database."
"I'd like to see better memory management. I think that that's one of the few areas that Postgres does not handle as well as MySQL does or did."
"It's not very user friendly, as it is open source and has no immediate support."
"The solution needs to improve the query, documentation, and JSON data functionality."
"Sometimes, it becomes slow because of the network. So, there is room for improvement in performance."
"One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This solution can offer a cheaper choice for customers since it is open-source."
"The need for our customers to pay for licences is contingent on their projects and budgets."
"PostgreSQL is a free and open-source database."
"We are using the free version of PostgreSQL."
"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."
"It is free. In terms of operating costs, it basically needs the same platform on which Oracle runs."
"It could be much cheaper. If you would like to build an application on Amazon today, PostgreSQL is the standard database with Redshift. If you want other databases, you can add them, but PostgreSQL is the basis of everything. It's a question of money, that's it."
"It is open source. There is no licensing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Transportation Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise47
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Questions from the Community

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 ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictoriaMetrics?
The pricing was very good as I am following a subscription-based model. As of now, I have a better dashboard to view my monthly and yearly bills. It is very helpful to reallocate my budget to accom...
What needs improvement with VictoriaMetrics?
Overall, VictoriaMetrics is a very strong tool. One area for improvement is documentation and learning resources. While the documentation is good, some advanced use cases and configuration could be...
What is your primary use case for VictoriaMetrics?
My main use case is storing and querying the time-series metrics for monitoring and observability. I primarily use it as a high-performance back end for Prometheus, where it handles large volumes o...
 

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