pganalyze vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
pganalyze
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Founded in 2012, pganalyze provides actionable insights into Postgres. Specializing in PostgreSQL database monitoring and optimization, pganalyze gives automatic insights into Postgres query plans, helps improve Postgres query performance with its Index Advisor and VACUUM Advisor, and lets the user perform query drill-down analysis, observe per-query statistics and conduct trend analysis in a platform that integrates with both self-managed Postgres servers as…
$149
per month per database server
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Score 5.7 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) enables deep visibility into database performance and expert advice for performance optimization and tuning. What can you monitor with DPA? Oracle Oracle Exadata Oracle EBS Microsoft SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database Managed Instance MySQL DB2 SAP ASE Aurora MariaDB DPA monitors physical, virtual,…N/A
Pricing
pganalyzeSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Editions & Modules
Production
$149
per month for 1 database server
Scale
$399
per month for up to 4 database servers ($100/mo for each additional billable server)
Enterprise Cloud
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per year per database server
Enterprise Server
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per year per database server
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
pganalyzeSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsScale plan offers additional database servers at a cost of $100/month for each additional billable server. In general, each 1 Postgres server that is running (i.e. one parent postgres process) is considered 1 billable server. In the case of cloud providers these are often called "instances". Depending on the subscription plan you are on, you may have a special price for replica servers (also called "readers", or "followers"), which is implemented by multiplying the replica count with a multiplier (e.g. 0.5), with the total rounded up. Annual plans are available and come at a discount compared to the monthly plans Contact us for custom requirements
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User Ratings
pganalyzeSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(113 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
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9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
pganalyzeSolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer
Likelihood to Recommend
pganalyze
pganalyze works great with the postgresql and gives a good alternatives to the existing producsts available out there like Slick or basic as microsoft SQL server manaagement studio. We have used in our projects of data migration and integration of enterprise data warehouseing and reporting . And it has provides us satisfactory results.
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SolarWinds
This is an easy 10 because I actually have recommended this product to multiple clients and colleagues! Any shop that writes its own SQL queries will benefit from the insight provided by SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, so they know which of their queries is causing a bottleneck. Small shops or databases with only a few tables likely will see far fewer opportunities for optimization.
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Pros
pganalyze
  • User and role setup
  • Performance tuning
  • Tracking of queries
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SolarWinds
  • Maintains historical SQL execution data, enabling forensic analysis
  • Has the ability to slice and dice the data so that you can drill down to the execution of a single SQL statement being executed by a stored procedure
  • Alerts to when the consumption pattern changes
  • Shows historical average run times against the current, illustrating problems when they arise
  • Provides tuning advice based on best practices
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Cons
pganalyze
  • Visualization
  • Database insights
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SolarWinds
  • Alerts seem to be lacking in DPA compared to competitor's tools. They can be setup but are not quite as easy or as helpful as some other tools I have used.
  • Grooming/pruning the repository database isn't very easy. We don't manage a lot of instances but our repo DB has grown pretty significantly.
  • At times when I am drilled-down to a chart, it can be difficult to navigate around from that point to another time range/query/metric.
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Likelihood to Renew
pganalyze
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SolarWinds
We have relied on this product for a very long time and it continues to exceed expectations. The product is a vital part of our organization at this point, it would not be very ideal for us to abandon it. We use it almost every day and depend on its alerts for critical parts of our business
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Usability
pganalyze
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SolarWinds
I don't want to think about managing clusters of SQL servers in the future without this tool. We have demoed other tools and SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is the gold standard for usability and insight into what your servers are doing. The UI is a bit dated, but everything is laid out in a logical manner and drilling down into queries or timeslices is extremely intuitive.
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Support Rating
pganalyze
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SolarWinds
I have had to use their support on a few occasions, for reasons that I am not clear about until recently I have always had problems upgrading the software (although the last 2 updates have gone without issue which I am very pleased to say). On those unfortunate occasions, the support has been brilliant with either excellently documented guides on how to resolve the issue by myself or have been hands-on with calls and screen sharing to remotely fix the issue. Every time the problem was sorted and more importantly, nothing was lost (apart from a bit of time). And as I stated above whatever the problem was that was causing my upgrade issues appears to have been resolved in the last 2 updates.
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Implementation Rating
pganalyze
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SolarWinds
Follow the guidelines for the capacity of the servers. We found that the DPA databases were getting rather large and also that there are ways to reduce their size built into some of the options.
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Alternatives Considered
pganalyze
It is better in terms of results provided. We were using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio so far and relying only on that but some one recommend to us to use pganalyze to do the query analysis and we started using it for one project and we liked it much that we have started recomended to all projects teams ..
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SolarWinds
At the time, we found SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer to be easier to setup and to have a richer feature set than Redgate SQL Monitor, plus, from what I remember, the DPA pricing worked better for us over the course of a year. We're very happy with all the features DPA has to offer.
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Return on Investment
pganalyze
  • Efficient product
  • Good value for money
  • You dont have to depend on external services
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SolarWinds
  • It has allowed us to progress as an organization with much less reliance on a direct DBA than would traditionally be required
  • Allowed us to be much more proactive in our performance monitoring and responding to issues that would affect users.
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ScreenShots

pganalyze Screenshots

Screenshot of Query Performance Overview: pganalyze provides access to historic query data and provides tools to help with optimizing and performance tuning of Postgres databases, including trend analysis, and config tuning recommendations.Screenshot of Query Details Page: Displays detailed statistics on a per-query basis so users can learn what to focus on. pganalyze can also be used to perform query drill-down analysis and observe per-query statistics.Screenshot of pganalyze Index Advisor: pganalyze automatically validates that existing indexes are useful, gives index recommendations to improve performance, and helps reduce load on the database.Screenshot of pganalyze EXPLAIN Insights: pganalyze automatically collects EXPLAIN plans with auto_explain, provides visualizations and gives meaningful insights into Postgres Queries.Screenshot of pganalyze Log Insights: PostgreSQL logs often contain critical details about whats going on in an associated database. pganalyze Log Insights automatically extracts the logs into structured data, and filters any sensitive information.Screenshot of pganalyze VACUUM Advisor: pganalyze helps optimize table bloat, freezing and VACUUM performance - ensuring ideal performance, stability, and efficiency for  databases.

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Screenshots

Screenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Alerts and reportsScreenshot of Application-centric view of DPAScreenshot of Blocking deadlock analysisScreenshot of Collaboration across teamsScreenshot of Intuitive performance monitoring