Oracle APEX vs PostgreSQL | TrustRadius

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Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 74 reviews and ratings

Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 195 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Oracle APEX

PostgreSQL

Visual Modeling

Drag-and-drop Interfaces

Platform Security

Platform User Management

Reusability

Platform Scalability

Pros

Easy upgrade path from Forms, allowing reuse of code and a low learning curve for Forms developers.
Very quick to develop in. Ideal for prototyping or iterative development which is how we usually work.
Comes with cross browser and mobile compatibility out of the box.
Easy to incorporate other web technologies.
Development environment runs straight from a browser. This has proved to be a life saver when issues crop up on a weekend.

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Professional in Information Technology

Furniture Company, 201-500 employees

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Flexibility and Unicode compliance combined with nearly full SQL features support makes PostgreSQL an ideal tool to conducting complex data analyses
Ease of administering PostgreSQL, SSL, SSO support make it possible to operate a very private and secure data repository
Programmability of PostgreSQL is superb. Multiple standard programming languages are supported, PL/SQL flavour of programming is possible
PostgreSQL runs on any platform
Replication, high availability are some of the enterprise features that anyone can implement on its own
Free, relatively mature for everyday use client tools
Most languages have native drivers
Superb support for JSON makes it not stop by thinking of NoSQL

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Senior Data Platform Consultant

SermoHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Perhaps is our problem, since we haven’t explored it deeply, but I think that a better portability to mobile devices would help the adoption of APEX.
Applications weren’t as light as we thought, and we had to move the APEX server to the same data center where our data base was running, due to performance issues. When we started, we supposed that that situation would not be an issue.
At least in Argentina and Brazil, you can not find as many programmers with experience in APEX as you can find with other technologies.

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Federico Shortrede

CIO

Adeco Agropecuaria S.A.Farming, 5001-10,000 employees

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Deployment gets difficult for folks who are habituated with commercial databases.
We cannot write our own database engine unlike MySQL.
PostgreSQL do not allow us to execute batch of statement. we have to embed it in a function to achieve this.

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Venkateswar Reddy Thatikonda

Senior Software Engineer

GGK TechHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Oracle APEX 8.5

Based on 2 answers

I felt very comfortable using Oracle Application Express from the start. I designed my data model and quickly developed the basic CRUD pages for master tables. Then I designed the main functionality and was able to test and deploy it in a couple of days work. I will probably share the app with other members of the team and continue adding some features in the short term.

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Lisandro Fernigrini

Sr. Software Developer / DBA

Kapsch GroupInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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PostgreSQL 9.0

Based on 1 answer

As a needed software for day to day development activities

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Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant

PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

Oracle APEX 8.5

Based on 2 answers

its easy to use as a developer and applications designed using apex are easy and intuitive to use as an end user. Even non-coders can build good applications, the more code you can write the more you can enhance the application but you can get up and running quickly with almost no technical know how.

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Oracle Developer

Furness Building SocietyFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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PostgreSQL 9.0

Based on 6 answers

Postgresql is the best tool out there for relational data so I have to give it a high rating when it comes to analytics, data availability and consistency, so on and so forth. SQL is also a relatively consistent language so when it comes to building new tables and loading data in from the OLTP database, there are enough tools where we can perform ETL on a scalable basis.

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

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PostgreSQL 9.0

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PostgreSQL's availability is top notch. Apart from connection time-out for an idle user, the database is super reliable.

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PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Performance

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PostgreSQL 7.0

Based on 1 answer

The data queries are relatively quick for a small to medium sized table. With complex joins, and a wide and deep table however, the performance of the query has room for improvement.

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Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant

PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Support

Oracle APEX 8.5

Based on 2 answers

Very active and knowledgeable community support includes quick and helpful responses from the Oracle employees on the product development team. I've never had to raise an official support request - everything is dealt with via forums and user groups - or via direct emails. The supposrt commuinty is one of the great things about Apex.

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Oracle Developer

Furness Building SocietyFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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PostgreSQL 8.7

Based on 4 answers

Its a really great product that has rich features which are well suited for our needs. It also has a NoSQL option which could be useful in some cases. And most importantly it's free to use which is always great.There's still room for improvement though, for example, the installation and upgrade process could be made easier, online resources could be improved as well.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Professional Training & Coaching Company, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

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The online training is request based. Had there been recorded videos available online for potential users to benefit from, I could have rated it higher. The online documentation however is very helpful. The online documentation PDF is downloadable and allows users to pace their own learning. With examples and code snippets, the documentation is great starting point.

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Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant

PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation

Oracle APEX 9.3

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Using it on the cloud is really simple, the entire process of configuring and provisioning an Oracle Database takes only a few minutes (less than 10) and then Oracle APEX is already deployed on the database, so you just have to start using it. I would strongly recommend using APEX on Oracle Cloud Free Tier.

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Lisandro Fernigrini

Sr. Software Developer / DBA

Kapsch GroupInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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PostgreSQL 9.0

Based on 1 answer

The online documentation of the PostgreSQL product is elaborate and takes users step by step.

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Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant

PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Obviously Oracle Application Express cannot replace WebLogic in terms of creating domains but it is not designed to do that. We can use this tool to prototype and later develop a product using the Oracle WebLogic platform. We selected Oracle Application Express due to the ease of learning, and not having to buy licenses to use it.

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Professional in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees

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Compared to MySQL, it works well if you need to extend to your use caseCompared to Spark, it works better w.r.t development time in a central database settingLike Redis, it cannot be used for caching and quick access of non-structured data

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Nitin Pasumarthy

Research Assistant

AppleResearch, 5001-10,000 employees

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Scalability

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PostgreSQL 8.0

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The DB is reliable, scalable, easy to use and resolves most DB needs

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Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant

PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

In the mid-size organization, we had a BI tool that had a significant license cost involved. With Oracle back-end we were able to switch to APEX and move all reporting at literally zero cost.
For Oracle PL/SQL users the learning curve is very quick and easy, there are ready templates that you can start with and eventually create complex reports.
You can track authorization and authentication on data editing and usage. High performance as it is native oracle sql codes.
Centralized data capturing, makes your datawarehouse writable for lookup tables or reference tables.

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Director in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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By pushing a lot of logic into database views and triggers, PostgreSQL provides the ability to write much slimmer and more maintainable controller code, reducing development costs.
PostgreSQL's upsert capabilities enabled us to go to scale much more easily and quickly, allowing us to increase our number of customers.

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Senior Software Engineer

Fast OrientationComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees

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Entry-level set up fee?

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