# Page 12 | PostgreSQL Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 12 - Is PostgreSQL the right Database solution for you? Explore 412 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/48791/PostgreSQL/reviews --- PostgreSQL 4.6 (412) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/48791/PostgreSQL/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated June 3rd, 2026 # Page 12 - Reviews of PostgreSQL ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 276-300 of 412 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use RD Rahul D. CRM & Digital Campaign manager Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Quality review of PostgreSQL" September 29, 2023 4.0 Pros \- Good management of data tables & possibility to have service of multiple Servers Cons \- Great to improve user interface & SQL query error classification to make easy accessibilities of data. Review Source Prasun P. Researcher Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Awesome Relational Database Management Software" July 22, 2021 5.0 The overall experience with PostgreSQL is really amazing. It always creates a buzz among developers. Pros PostgreSQL is one of the best relational database management software or probably the most advanced open source relational database out there. The query language always gives an edge to create tables and sorting out the data and even train them with BigQuery machine learning consoles and others. Cons Nothing to dislike about this software. Because it has a lot of usefulness plus regular updates and bug fixing keeps the software at its peak everytime. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Analista de presupuestos Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "offers great advantages in terms of performance and that its simple maneuver allows us to define cus" March 13, 2018 5.0 allows us to create databases using different programming languages, PostgreSQL is available for many platforms and offers the source code from the official site. Users can create their own data types, which can be completely indexable thanks to the GiST infrastructure of PostgreSQL Pros It is free and free, which offers us a large number of advanced options. It has a multiversion concurrency control. This method adds an image of the state of the database to each transaction, allowing us to perform possibly consistent transactions. Postgres does not require the use of blockages. reading when making a transaction which gives us greater scalability. It brings a lot of flexibility to our projects as it allows us to define customized functions through several languages Cons the transactions abort completely if a fault is found during its execution, which can cause the loss of information, it is slow in the insertions and the updates since it has intersection headers, the object orientation support is a simple extension that offers benefits such as inheritance, not full support. The current versions of PostgreSQL have a serious security problem that will be fixed in the next versions of the product Review Source rR rohan R. Cloud DevOps Engineer  Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Typical relational database management system with lack of NoSQL feature" November 14, 2019 4.0 Very good for RDBMS purposes and not good for analytics purposes Pros It is a typical relational database management system where you an get all rdbms features including transactions and triggers and rest . But It's issues is same , when i comes to non structured data , its not suitable , good for OLTP purposes but not for OLAP purposes. Cons Not for very unstructured data and batch processing or analytics purposes. Although good for transnational databases. Review Source YM Yezid M. IT and Network Administrator Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "This is another of my DBMS for some of our apps and is very stable" April 12, 2018 4.0 Pros This DB server has a powerfull set of functions that has permitted to our DB Admin to generate more efficient reads and writes on it. The fact of having this kind of DBMS available on OpenSource is very good for organizations that needs to save some money in IT platform Cons According with us, configuration of PostgeSQL may result complicated, because of this is an advanced DBMS. Interfaces to manage are not simple, at least for me. Review Source KH Kevin H. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Highly reliable for data and easy syntax" January 15, 2022 5.0 Pros Incredibly simple to arrangement, and entirely dependable for announcing applications. I use it on the AWS Cloud and really content with the exhibition and viability. Cons Though it's a useful inteface, it very well may be improved and made quicker and simpler to utilize. Review Source Matheus N. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great open source relational database" September 5, 2019 4.0 It's a great tool and perfect value for money, since it's completely free. Perfect for small and medium sized applications. Pros It's the best open source relational database available. It's a full featured database, easy to use and integrate to you software. It's really consistent with the SQL standards. Cons The official database management system offered from PostgreSQL could be better, it's fourth version is only available as a web application. PostgreSQL is not as popular as MySQL and it may not be recommended for very large applications due to memory performance. Review Source LS Levi S. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "YES" September 7, 2018 5.0 PostgreSQL is my go to for databases for the web development work I do. It has a ton of datatypes that are super useful and has a lot of the features found in the giant (and expensive) competitors. This is a fantastic tool. Pros PostgreSQL is powerful, performant, and a snap to integrate with the languages I use. Cons The documentation sometimes doesn't make it immediately obvious which version you are looking at. You have to be really careful you aren't using old documentation with a newer version of the product. Review Source Nifal N. Technical Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Object Relational Database Management" January 24, 2022 4.0 Pros The way it shows schema wise objects and it compliant with SQL standard. Cons When it compared with other similar products its really difficult to find documents and videos to get help. Switched from [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.capterra.com/p/1417/SQL-Server/) Actually my company decided this switch for there new software product. Review Source JM Jean-Baptiste M. Développeur Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent SGBDR gratuit" January 30, 2024 5.0 Pros Excellent SGBDR facile d'utilisation et gratuit. Je l'ai utilisé à plusieurs reprises pour des applications web et il m'a donné entière satisfaction. Plus robuste que MySQL, il permet de manipuler des quantités importantes de données assez simplement. Cons Aucun inconvénient à déplorer jusque là. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Tooling & Support Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Super powerful" September 7, 2018 5.0 Pros Easy to integration with languages like Ruby. Easy to write powerful SQL queries Cons Coming over from MySQL, some of the CLI could use improvement. It is often difficult to find what commands I need to accomplish tasks Review Source Oshan M. Mobile Apllication Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "One of the best open source database management platform." August 11, 2019 4.0 Reliable and perfect way to have optimized database platform which is having high performance. Pros PostgreSQL platform is fully compliance with the SQL and its free and open source which is not required license.We can easily and efficiently configure the PostgreSQL platform. We can have secured database architecture with the PostgreSQL and we can use this database platform to any size of businesses which are focusing on high performance. Cons If you are beginner, check with latest learning materials to know about the database platform.If not,it would be difficult to work as beginner. Review Source Priyabrata S. Java / iOS Developer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very easy to use for a Developer's point of view" April 11, 2018 5.0 Very user friendly. Won't take much time if you know SQL. Very useful for a developer. Pros It support the JSON. With Citus, an open source extension to PostgreSQL, it's now easy to scale out PostgreSQL across multiple nodes and intelligently distribute transactions and SQL queries to get massive parallelism, as well as a much bigger compute, memory, and disk footprint for the database. Cons Till have not found anything, except one thing. Sometimes it takes time to run the query. Don't know whether it's because of PostgreSQL or server. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer front end developer / designer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Powerful SQL language" April 29, 2019 5.0 Databases, database schemas. Pros I like the SQL syntax, i think it is very understandable. It has strong documentation and wide user base with different knowledge. Cons Since it is open source project, there are no dislikes to give to this software. Review Source AC AKHILESH C. AVP Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Amazing Database" July 15, 2021 4.0 overall experience has been great with the tool and have been using it already for more than 2 years now. Pros I have not used the software directly but have used along with QlikSense. Its easy to use and being experienced with other relational databases, it was easy to configure and use. Cons I feel that it it slower than other counterparts like mysql/ sql server. could be a drawback of being a open source software Review Source CJ Caleb J. Junior web Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "PostgreSQL - Powerful Object Relational Database" October 21, 2019 4.0 PostgreSQL might not be the best among all DMS available, but it is definitely the best at what it is designed for when used properly. Pros PostgreSQL is known as a Powerful Object Relational Database with an impressive reputation for performance, feature, robustness and reliability compared to many other databases on the market. It is an extremely scalable database management system with many powerful tools to exploit data, making life super simple. It is open source, free and you can deploy PostgreSQL practically anywhere and anytime with as much user as needed. Similar to MySQL Phpmyadmin, PostgreSQL has PgAdmin which provides a GUI and SQL interface. Last but not least, PostgreSQL is highly extensible and provides online backup option. Cons The speed for data selection is not as speedy as some other RDMS on the market. You must regularly execute autovacuum to ensure no deterioration to performance. Review Source JM Jorge M. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Love your relational database again!" April 20, 2017 5.0 Postgres is by far the strongest database relational engine, it's a one package solution, it will hold tons of transactions with no problems, it is highly reliable and high performance based. We use Postgres to hold the data for both our web app and Mobile apps, we use a web service layer that interacts directly with the data base and it works like a charm. It will also allow you to store things like JSON objects (JA! Take that MongoDB!) and use those objects and even create search queries based on that data. Pros Easy to install, high performance, hold many kinds of data fields, highly reliable Cons The CLI is not the best option when your tables have several columns Review Source Harisha A. FileNet (ECM) Consultant/Project Lead Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Postgres is the most effective Open source Database" December 4, 2017 5.0 Pros It's open source. So, its great for startup companies. It is fully SQL compliant. The admin tool PGAdmin is powerful. I am impressed with the custom data types supported by Postgres mainly JSONB. Cons We faced problem while using custom data types like JSONB. Inserting data to these type of columns via Hibernate is not straightforward. We referred a couple of articles on that to resolve the issue. https://github.com/thjanssen/HibernateJSONBSupport/tree/master/PostgresJSONB Review Source AK Anil K. Jr. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best open source SQL" September 23, 2020 4.0 We use PostgreSQL for our project to store data, It really helps our work to go smooth. Pros PostgreSQL is fast and secure, easy to execute SQL, and handles a very large set of data. PostgreSQL is easy to set up and its support in another operating system Cons consume lot of memory for a large set of data, and bit slow for very large set of data, except that everything is fine. Review Source JH Jamie H. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Most featureful open-source database" December 5, 2018 5.0 Pros Tonnes of features, great performance. Many problems where you might use a fancy noSQL database you can just use one of Postgres' features instead. Cons Can be relatively complicated to operate. While there is a large ecosystem around Postgres, it still requires significant expertise to pick out things like solutions for automated failover (and solutions aren't built-in to Postgres). Review Source ED Efrain D. System Administrator Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "PostgreSQL is te best DBMS out there." November 9, 2017 5.0 Having a robust DBMS for our database is great. Pros PostgreSQL is a robust yet very easy to use DBMS. You can trust PostgreSQL to save your data no matter how big it its. It is very well documented and the community that develops it is the best (thanks guys!). In the newer versions it nows supports saving JSON data so you can use it as a NoSQL solution. PostgreSQL is simply the best. Review Source Gregory M. Developer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best database manager." March 29, 2018 5.0 Pros It is very powerful and very easy to use, fast and very effective for web development, it is excellent in the implementation of security protocols. Cons The only negative opinion that I do not consider a flaw is that it is difficult to start using it for windows users, recommending its use in linux. Review Source BO Bikram O. Data analyst Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Postgre SQL" June 28, 2019 5.0 I use this database for my workplace for day to day operations for database manipulation and sales calculation on a daily basis. Pros 1\. Highly interactive, fast-paced and easy installation. 2. Learning is easy and help function is very useful. 3. Navigation is easy. 4. Environment set up will be there for a database there is no need to initialize database again and again Cons 1\. Less efficent then mysql in terms of performance. 2. Commands are a little complicated. 3.Less interactivity 4.Difficult for new users to adapt Review Source VR Verified Reviewer tech lead Outsourcing/Offshoring Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "An industry standard rdbms" November 23, 2023 5.0 Pros It’s an industry standard tool - we use it for all kinds of CRUDS Only gave 3 stars on ease of use because I am not the most educated user! Cons No cons - mostly PEBKAC issues at most, but it’s not PostgreSQL’s fault! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Graduate Research Assistant Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good SQL tool for production" December 16, 2018 4.0 Pros PostgreSQL is a premium SQL tool that has advanced security feature and good for production. Cons Can be complex to setup in application development. 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