PostgreSQL 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

PostgreSQL

4.6

(412)

Pricing

Starting at $0.01 one time

About PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an open-source database management solution that helps businesses streamline operations related to indexing, performance tracking, data replication and more on a centralized platform. It enables employees to configure stop words, synonyms, thesaurus, Ispell and Snowball dictionaries to optimize full-text search processes.

PostgreSQL's partitioning and inheritance module allow supervisors to split large tables into smaller sections, improving overall query performance. Administrators can configure access rights, set up column and row-level security and use multi-factor authentication methodology to ensure a secure user experience. Additionally, data analysts can handle data backup, restoration and integrity operations using multiple methodologies, such as logical replication, synchronous replication, point-in-time recovery and hot standby.

PostgreSQL comes with an application programming interface (API), which allows businesses to integrate the platform with several third-party solutions. It is available for free and extends support via documentation, discussion forum, email and instant messaging.

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PostgreSQL User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

67%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.6

Adolfo M.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Very complete and stable database

I have very good experience installing and configuring databases with PostgreSQL. Once installed and configured it is very stable, almost without errors and one can rest assured that the data is fine

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very complete for any type of project or application. It is stable, easy to use and can handle a lot of structured data. It is free software and is very well documented It is very popular and has a very varied community around the project

Cons:

Its installation and configuration can be a bit complex at first. Being free they are not obliged to provide support Requires specific tuning for each possible scenario

Reasons for choosing PostgreSQL

For its flexibility for all types of projects, its price, and its stability.

Reasons for switching to PostgreSQL

To handle more data and guarantee its integrity.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

The right database for 95% of use cases

Postgres is there for you whenever you need to store and retrieve simple tabular data. Whether that's your app user's name, email, and settings, or the projects and project content that they've created. As long as you're not dealing with over 10k transactions per second, it's cheap to use and extremely easy to set up. Oh, and it's also not great but just okay for advanced searching such as full-text search.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Postgres is just soooo reliable, it's hard to corrupt or lose data unless you go in and manually edit or delete the data. - Battle-tested ACID transactions to make sure you only update the data when it makes sense to have saved me so much time. - The SQL interface is easy to use once you've mastered SQL (which it isn't; it's the simplest of all the languages I've learned). - Newer versions even has support for advanced use cases such as arrays and JSON objects. - The best thing is that 90% of the backend software developers know Postgres (or MySQL which is pretty dang similar) so help is never too far away!

Cons:

The only real reason to not use Postgres is that it is pretty hard to scale. If your software requires over 10k transactions per second, you're gonna have to put in some serious work make Postgres scale. This is where Postgres becomes a pain to optimize. Postgres provides poor support for identifying the queries that are running really slowly. e.g. you have to install a buggy plugin and then query a funky poorly documented table. Trying to do master-slave replication is also quite difficult as you often run into consistency issues and will have to modify app logic. In these cases, it's better to go with NoSQL obviously.

Reasons for choosing PostgreSQL

I picked Postgres over MySQL is not as battle tested and was behind Postgres in terms of JSON object support. I picked Postgres over MongoDB because it's easier to set up, didn't have anyone else on the team that knew how to use it (whereas all 5 of my teammates have Postgres experience), and because Postgres can handle our traffic currently.

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Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Postgres: A nosql kv data store

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Our team uses Postgres as nosql kv data store. Their jsonb field is good enough for basic kv store use. We have a few million rows in this database and quite satisfied with its performance.

Cons:

The need to vacuum regularly makes it a little difficult to maintain in longer run.

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Reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Best open-source RDBMS out there

Overall, we have a very productive experience with PostgreSQL. Whenever we need a backend database for any of the apps we deploy, we use PostgreSQL. It never fails us.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I like how easy it is to set up and deploy a PostgreSQL database. It has a rich ecosystem of tools and a great open-source community behind it.

Cons:

I don't have anything I dislike about PostgreSQL.

Reasons for choosing PostgreSQL

Out of many open-source tools we deploy, PostgreSQL is the most widely supported DB backend among others. So we decided to use PostgreSQL whenever applicable.

Reasons for switching to PostgreSQL

For some tools we deployed, we naturally needed to scale up and handle more complex workloads. So we changed our backend database.

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Reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Java developer on PostgreSQL. A look back after several years.

I have been using PostgreSQL for 6 years in most of the applications I write. It is my default choice for a relational database.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PostgreSQL is a database that every programmer is familiar with. I value its versatility and universality. It's easy to implement it production-wise with not much scale.

Cons:

Great for simple applications, when it comes to scaling/replication problems begin.

Reasons for choosing PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL was easier to learn for most team members.

Reasons for switching to PostgreSQL

I changed jobs and the new job used PostgreSQL.

Abdelhakim Z.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

The best user tailored db experience.

I use PostgreSQL with almost every endeavor nowadays. Both at work and with personal projects, it is very robust when used in my research field which is optimization and operations research, but also flexible enough to help me quickly deploy web apps.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PostgreSQL is by far the most user friendly and most advanced database system out of the top 5 popular choices. It's inherently relational making it easily compatible with ORMs, has many smaller quirks like jsonb storage, the WITH keyword, and a vast amount of data types. It's also one of the most dynamic DBMS as it releases major changes more than once a year, with an ecosystem that consistently adapts to these versions.

Cons:

Extensions in pgsql could use a bit of streamlining (extensions like pg_cron or similar), which was a bit complicated to do in with CI. Another concern would be some stability issues with the latest pgAdmin database interface, but in all fairness that isn't directly an issue with pgsql.

Reasons for switching to PostgreSQL

Like I mentioned earlier, a few gotchas with MySQL like lacking the date data type with respective timezones, the WITH keyword that is used for subqueries, but ultimately it was because Postgres has the PostGIS extension which we needed at the time for geographical mapping.

Fernando R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Powerful database

We use PostgreSQL as database tool for all our healthcare software products

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PostgreSQL is eaiser to maintenance and to install than other RDBMS like ORACLE. PostgreSQL is open source so is cheaper than other RDBMS. It takes less learrning time than other RDBMS

Cons:

We do not have any cons about PostgreSQL

Reasons for switching to PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is more simple and cheaper than ORACLE

Jonathan Alexander C.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

A robust database engine for your web projects and platforms

I have used this database to carry out web projects in the health sector and it has been of great help to manage processes and data in a very efficient way and with the best performance that I have seen.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like most about this database engine is its security, scalability and high performance for the development of platforms and web applications, easy to maintain and manage

Cons:

That I did not like the product, its difficult or complex syntax, sometimes the very tedious query error

Reasons for switching to PostgreSQL

Because of the security, the performance and how efficient this database engine can be for more complex projects that require a higher level of transaction and data handling.

Danilo N.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Best database ever!

Best database management system: plenty of plugins (data visualization, backup, performance, etc), easily expandable, incredibly powerful configuration options.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

PostgreSQL is the most flexible database management system out there. It has a lot of plugins (data visualization, backup, performance, etc), which make it very expandable too, incredibly powerful configuration options, etc. It has almost any type of column that your system will ever need.

Cons:

I really don't found any PostgreSQL problem until now, so I would recommend that you use it without any fear.

Reasons for choosing PostgreSQL

Price and flexibility, besides the experience working with it.