PostgreSQL

Based on 7229 responses from 1304 people, we've built up the following picture of PostgreSQL

Ranked high for:

  1. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  2. This database is very reliable
  3. This database has a good community around it
  4. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  5. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  6. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  7. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  8. This database is good for querying graph structures
  9. I am familiar with this database
  10. This database is highly scalable

Ranked low for:

  1. This database has a low footprint
  2. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  3. This database has an unusual data model
  4. This database is very easy to get started with
  5. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  6. This database can be a bit arcane
  7. This database has a very restrictive data model
  8. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  9. This database has very good read performance
  10. This database has a good story for replication

Most similar to

  1. MSSQL Server
  2. Oracle
  3. MySQL
  4. BigTable
  5. Phoenix

Most dissimilar from

  1. dbm
  2. Flat files
  3. h2
  4. Access
  5. SQLAnywhere

All statements

  1. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  2. This database is very reliable
  3. This database has a good community around it
  4. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  5. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  6. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  7. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  8. This database is good for querying graph structures
  9. I am familiar with this database
  10. This database is highly scalable
  11. This database is good for querying time series
  12. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  13. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  14. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  15. This database has a very flexible data model
  16. This database has very good write performance
  17. This database has a good story for replication
  18. This database has very good read performance
  19. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  20. This database has a very restrictive data model
  21. This database can be a bit arcane
  22. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  23. This database is very easy to get started with
  24. This database has an unusual data model
  25. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  26. This database has a low footprint