PostgreSQL vs Airtable: Which is a better fit?

David Z.: My name's David, I'm a software developer in the audiovisual industry, and I would give PostgreSQL a five. We're using PostgreSQL to solve data persistence issues that we were having, as well as we're using it for business intelligence purposes to run various queries for our analytics and business intelligence divisions. What I like most about PostgreSQL is it's very easy to use compared to other SQL dialects, and very easy to deploy Docker containers. What I dislike most about PostgreSQL is that certain things like database vacuuming and other maintenance processes can be single threaded, which can cause a little more downtime than necessary.

Onome D.: Hello, my name is Onome. I am an artist and facilitator. I am a solopreneur and I give Airtable four out of five stars. Prior to Airtable, I was using Google Drive as my content library, and I find Airtable to be better suited to the job. Well, it just so happened that I was able to receive a template for doing my content management system that made it easier for me to figure out how to organize my content in a fairly straightforward way. It was a bit of a learning curve, even with the template because I mean, there's so many options and so many customizations. So I'd say overall it's a pretty steep learning curve. In my case, having a template made a bit of an easier entry point for me. But even with that entry point, it was a little difficult to understand how to add new columns and customize the database. So I'd say it's a little bit of challenge. I would say that though Airtable has worked just fine for my purposes as a solopreneur, it's better suited to a team of people just because it has so many potential moving parts. And the way in which it is customizable, I think it would be better suited to a team of people, like a group of archivists or a group of social media content managers, that kind of thing. Those teams would be the ones that would best be served by a software like Airtable.