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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PostgreSQL

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/APostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.N/A

    Roambi (discontinued)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ARoambi was a cloud-based solution designed specifically for mobile data consumers, used to create touch-based data visualizations. It was acquired by SAP in 2016 for the SAP Analytics portfolio, and has since been discontinued as a standalone product.

    $10

    per user per month

    Pricing
    PostgreSQLRoambi (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $10
    per user per month
    Business
    $39
    per user per month
    Enterprise
    $59
    per user per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PostgreSQLRoambi (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    PostgreSQLRoambi (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    PostgreSQLRoambi (discontinued)
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of PostgreSQL and Roambi (discontinued)
    Feature
    PostgreSQL
    -
    Ratings
    Roambi (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    PostgreSQLRoambi (discontinued)
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    MariaDB Platform
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Chartio (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    MySQL
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SQLite
    Score8 out of 10
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PostgreSQLRoambi (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (56 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PostgreSQLRoambi (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    PostgreSQL is best used for structured data, and best when following relational database design principles. I would not use PostgreSQL for large unstructured data such as video, images, sound files, xml documents, web-pages, especially if these files have their own highly variable, internal structure.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Getting Roambi up to speed in your company certainly is a quick win. After just a few days, several of our reports were mobilized, interactive and automatically updated. Building Roambi reports is not hard to do; the intuitive interface allows virtually any type of user to create his or her own reports.
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    Pros
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    • It works well with external data sources and runs on platforms with stable performance.
    • Clients can rest assured that their personal information will be safe and secure.
    • Many forums discuss setup and usage, and most are free.
    • Adding tooling applications to a computer is unlimited.
    • PostgreSQL runs on many OS platforms and supports ANSI SQL, stored procedures, and triggers.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Report templates that are easy to learn, use, update and maintain.
    • Great looking reports that stay up-to-date with what Apple is producing. When Apple rolled out the new look and feel to their iOS7 release, Roambi created a brand new set of reports within two weeks to go along with the iOS7 changes.
    • Seamless integration with our existing BI environment, SAP Business Objects XI, 3.1. This drastically reduced the time from purchase to client-ready roll out from months to weeks.
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    Cons
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    • Clearer indications on what is the query plan, to optimize the query
    • More out of the box, Postgres specific, SQL functions
    • It would be nice to have a more visual aid of the relationship between all tables, but possibly this depend more on the UI used
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • cardex type of presentation is already innovated in roambi in 2012, even iOS safari browser idea was created from this cardex style
    • blink view is only available for sap and ms sql
    • roambi publisher is very user-friendly and understandable for non technical person as well
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    As a needed software for day to day development activities
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    I would definitely use Roambi again because of its ease-of-use, but its lack of customization ability makes it difficult to recommend to businesses as business needs are always changing. People are picky, and on the Roambi project, we were not able to fully live up to the customer's expectations, limited by Roambi's preset limitations.
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    Usability
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    VERY easy to use. Only limited by how the graphs and data is initially set up.
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    Reliability and Availability
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    PostgreSQL's availability is top notch. Apart from connection time-out for an idle user, the database is super reliable.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    There are several companies that you can contract for technical support, like EnterpriseDB or Percona, both first level in expertise and commitment to the software.
    But we do not have contracts with them, we have done all the way from googling to forums, and never have a problem that we cannot resolve or pass around. And for dozens of projects and more than 15 years now.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    The online documentation of the PostgreSQL product is elaborate and takes users step by step.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    Although the competition between the different databases is increasingly aggressive in the sense that they provide many improvements, new functionalities, compatibility with complementary components or environments, in some cases it requires that it be followed within the same family of applications that performs the company that develops it and that is not all bad, but being able to adapt or configure different programs, applications or other environments developed by third parties apart is what gives PostgreSQL a certain advantage and this diversification in the components that can be joined with it, is the reason why it is a great option to choose.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We have compared Roambi against Business Objects, Reporting Services (on tablet) and Cubeware Cockpit. All those solutions lack in support of touch capabilities and responsiveness. Roambi "feels" just right. There is no training required and users love to explore the application. Compared to Roambi all other solutions feel very technical and hard to understand.
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    Scalability
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    The DB is reliable, scalable, easy to use and resolves most DB needs
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    PostgreSQL Global Development Group
    • Easy to administer so our DevOps team has only ever used minimal time to setup, tune, and maintain.
    • Easy to interface with so our Engineering team has only ever used minimal time to query or modify the database. Getting the data is straightforward, what we do with it is the bigger concern.
    • It's free. You can't beat that.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Increased insights on customer success metrics (using a Layers report).
    • Higher motivation of employees, better communication towards employees, tighter bonds with the company - because of Roambi Flow. Periodic Flow magazines with analytic capabilities are sent out to the employees, as we value frequent and meaningful contact - both ways.
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