PostgreSQL: reliable and cost effective.
November 19, 2025
PostgreSQL: reliable and cost effective.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with PostgreSQL
The majority of our databases are built with PostgreSQL via Jupiter. Over the years PostgreSQL has been reliable and secure product. It has always provided the features that we need as a business while also allowing us to manage costs. We have been able to shift away from docker and really embrace the homebrew set up, which in turn showed its versatility and portability.
Pros
- Built in replication gives us confidence around high availability and ease of movement.
- Excellent introspection and tuning tools
- Open source licensing keeps cost down
Cons
- Horizontal write sharding becomes quite complex
- Some queries have high latency
- Sometimes workloads exceed and operational teams need to weigh up whats important to stay operational.
- Ability to operate within a cost effective budget
- Fast onboarding timeframes
PostgreSQL holds it own against both these options. Some of these DBs are in play for certain needs but the majority are PostgreSQL because of cost and operational performance.
Do you think PostgreSQL delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with PostgreSQL's feature set?
Yes
Did PostgreSQL live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of PostgreSQL go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy PostgreSQL again?
Yes
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