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Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle APEX
It is appropriate for database application development supporting data driven processes, online transaction processing, BI/reports/analytics ... for addressing about any business data processing need I can think of. Oracle Application Express is fantastic for creating beautiful rich user interfaces with support for all major browsers rendering well on a range of devices. It is less appropriate for applications requiring native low level access to device peripherals and is less appropriate for applications that must execute offline without network/internet connection to supporting application and database servers.
Database Application Engineer III
LeeSarHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is open source, and then, there are several companies that could give you technical support, like EnterpriseDB or Percona.
PostgreSQL is easy to install and configure and is multi-platform, you could use Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, and you could use ALL the hardware you have purchased for your project, without sinking hundreds of thousand of dollars in proprietary software, to use only a small part of your server for the database.
Let's see a concrete case: You have a project to make an information system which uses an underlying database. Then you purchase 3 servers, which cost USD 50K for the Production server, USD 25K for the Contingency Server and USD 10K for the Development Server.
If you use a proprietary database, we know what companies, they price their software licenses per every 2 cores if we use the servers physically or every 2 vcpus (threads) if we use virtual machines, and the cost range is between USD 15K and 50K for each 2 cores license. If my production server has a configuration of 24 SSDs of 3,84 TB, 2 TB of ECC RAM, and 2 CPUs AMD EPYC 7702, with 64 cores each (128 cores and 256 vcpus or threads per server), the cost of the proprietary database could be more than USD one million, and if we use a subscription mechanism to get the updates, we could be talking of another million each 3 to 5 years. That is ten times the cost of the hardware. And you can TOUCH the hardware.
Is PostgreSQL slower than the proprietary databases that we talk about? Yes; but for what margin? In in-house tests, the performance of PostgreSQL was from 50% to 75% typically, with several scenarios where PostgreSQL where speedier. But we could use ALL the cores for the DBMS, not just a few.
For us PostgreSQL is the best database in existence. Period. If we use proprietary databases yet it's only for legacy information systems, for contractual restrictions or because our providers haven't seen the light (yet).
Technology Risk and Information Assets Manager
Banco Interfinanzas S.A.Banking, 51-200 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Low-Code Development
Oracle APEX
7.9
PostgreSQL
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Visual Modeling
Oracle APEX
7.5
PostgreSQL
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Drag-and-drop Interfaces
Oracle APEX
7.8
PostgreSQL
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Platform Security
Oracle APEX
8.1
PostgreSQL
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Platform User Management
Oracle APEX
8.4
PostgreSQL
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Reusability
Oracle APEX
7.7
PostgreSQL
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Platform Scalability
Oracle APEX
8.1
PostgreSQL
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Pros
Oracle APEX
- 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.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Furniture Company, 201-500 employeesPostgreSQL
- As I mentioned before, Postgres has an incredibly flexible and simple-to-use user/role management system. First, there are users--login information so that you can hand out to individual users. Then, there are roles, which specify read and/or write access to all the tables that you can assign to users. Through this system, you can easily control who can read and update which tables, and the system is very well-tested, so there's no concern with users accessing or writing to data that they shouldn't be unless your Postgres admin really messes up!
- I could write pages on this and would need to reference the Postgres manual itself to do this justice, but Postgres is dang scalable! There are so many ways to scale it. Postgres has undergone active development by some of the brightest engineers for over 30 years now, and the result is that Postgres has so many ways you can scale it besides just upping the SSD and CPU and memory speed. You can scale reads horizontally through multiple slaves that handle all the reads. You can add highly optimized indices to your tables. You can change columns to JSONB types for super fast JSON queries. You can turn on special caches to bulk writes so they don't overwhelm the disk. Between those three options and other tips and tricks experienced Postgres admins have, you can get a lot out of them. There's a reason Yahoo stuck with Postgres for decades up until their main database even past the point of 4 Petabytes and 10k writes/second!
- Postgres, simply put, has achieved super-wide industry adoption (6% market share), which means it's really easy to integrate it into your stack and hire knowledgeable developers to service Postgres. All the major database libraries of the common web frameworks that I know are out there (e.g. Rails-ActiveRecord, Spring-Hibernate, Play Scala-Slick) have out-of-the-box deep Postgres support, with no extra configuration needed to get your web app to start reading and writing to Postgres. I also know many universities in the US include Postgres in their curriculum too (e.g. UC Berkeley). It's really easy to hire either new grads or experienced software engineers for positions that require Postgres knowledge.
- If you are comparing Postgres to MySQL and you want to use JSON, know that Postgres has better performance and features on indexing JSON blobs simply because Postgres beat MySQL to the JSON game by several years. I haven't used MySQL's JSON support before, but that's what my co-workers say (and it's true that Postgres definitely started support mySQL years earlier).

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesCons
Oracle APEX
- 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.
CIO
Adeco Agropecuaria S.A.Farming, 5001-10,000 employees
PostgreSQL
- 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.
Senior Software Engineer
GGK TechHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Oracle APEX
Oracle APEX 8.2
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.
Sr. Software Developer / DBA
Kapsch GroupInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 9.0
Based on 1 answer
As a needed software for day to day development activities
Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant
PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Usability
Oracle APEX
Oracle APEX 8.2
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.
Oracle Developer
Furness Building SocietyFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
PostgreSQL
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesReliability and Availability
Oracle APEX
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 9.0
Based on 2 answers
PostgreSQL's availability is top notch. Apart from connection time-out for an idle user, the database is super reliable.
Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant
PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Performance
Oracle APEX
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 7.0
Based on 2 answers
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.
Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant
PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Support Rating
Oracle APEX
Oracle APEX 8.2
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.
Oracle Developer
Furness Building SocietyFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 9.3
Based on 13 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Professional Training & Coaching Company, 11-50 employeesOnline Training
Oracle APEX
No answers on this topic
PostgreSQL
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.
Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant
PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Implementation Rating
Oracle APEX
Oracle APEX 9.1
Based on 2 answers
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.
Sr. Software Developer / DBA
Kapsch GroupInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 9.0
Based on 3 answers
The online documentation of the PostgreSQL product is elaborate and takes users step by step.
Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant
PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Oracle APEX
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.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employeesPostgreSQL
Research Assistant
AppleResearch, 5001-10,000 employees
Scalability
Oracle APEX
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 8.0
Based on 1 answer
The DB is reliable, scalable, easy to use and resolves most DB needs
Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant
PointClickCareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Oracle APEX
- 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.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employeesPostgreSQL
- 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.
Senior Software Engineer
Fast OrientationComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Oracle APEX
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Oracle APEX Editions & Modules
Edition
Oracle APEX Application Development | 0.321 |
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Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing - Exadata Storage | 118.402 |
- OCPU per hour
- Terabyte storage capacity per month
Additional Pricing Details
—PostgreSQL
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
PostgreSQL Editions & Modules
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