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EDB Postgres vs YugabyteDB

No leader: the top candidate YugabyteDB has only 0.18 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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EDB Postgres36
YugabyteDB53
Score
vioscaleAI score
EDB Postgres36 / 100medium · 72%
YugabyteDB53 / 100low · 18%
Pricing
Free tier
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Model
EDB Postgresopen_source
YugabyteDBopen_source
Price level
EDB Postgresfree
YugabyteDBfree
Transparent
EDB Postgres–
YugabyteDB✓
Integrations
Count
EDB Postgres10
YugabyteDB4
Security
Disclosure policy
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Gdpr
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Iso27001
EDB Postgres–
YugabyteDB✓
Scorecard
EDB Postgres2.5
YugabyteDB–
Soc2
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
EDB Postgres99.999
YugabyteDB–
Status page
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
EDB Postgres1
YugabyteDB–
Github stars
EDB Postgres67
YugabyteDB–
Activity
Commits last 30d
EDB Postgres0
YugabyteDB–
Release
Cadence days
EDB Postgres20
YugabyteDB–
History
EDB Postgres20 items
YugabyteDB–
Language
Primary
EDB PostgresPython
YugabyteDB–
Content
Faq
EDB Postgres5 items
YugabyteDB4 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
EDB PostgresFull SQL
YugabyteDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
EDB PostgresFull
YugabyteDBFull
Highest isolation level
EDB PostgresSerializable
YugabyteDBSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
EDB PostgresStrong
YugabyteDBStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
EDB PostgresNatively distributed
YugabyteDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
EDB PostgresAsync
YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
EDB PostgresSelf-hosted
YugabyteDBSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
EDB Postgres✗
YugabyteDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
EDB PostgresPostgres protocol
YugabyteDBPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
EDB PostgresPermissive OSS
YugabyteDBPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Geo / spatial
EDB Postgres-
YugabyteDB-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

EDB Postgres

An open-source command-line tool that automates the provisioning of cloud resources and deployment of PostgreSQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, and enterprise infrastructure including high availability, backup and recovery, monitoring, and connection pooling.

Independently observed

YugabyteDB

An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native deployments that provides PostgreSQL compatibility with high performance and horizontal scalability.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

EDB Postgres

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

YugabyteDB

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

  • Standard$125/vCPU/month
    • PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
    • Cassandra API (YCQL)
    • Change Data Capture
    • Single-region fault tolerance
    • PostgreSQL extensions
    • +7 more
  • Professional$167/vCPU/month
    • All Standard features
    • Multi-region stretched clusters
    • Read Replicas
    • Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
    • Performance Advisor
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Professional features
    • Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
    • Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
macOS
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB–
Windows
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB–
Linux
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB–
CLI
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓
Self-hosted
EDB Postgres✓
YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (2)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Terraform

EDB Postgres

24 total - 22 not shared
  • JDBC Connectors
  • MongoDB
  • Cassandra
  • Hadoop
  • HBASE
  • MySQL
  • Amazon S3
  • Parquet
  • Apache Spark
  • PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager)
  • xDB Replication Server
  • EFM (EDB Failover Manager)
  • Backup and Recovery Tool
  • HARP
  • ETCD
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • EDB Postgres Advanced Server
  • Ansible
  • PEM
  • EFM
Independently observed

YugabyteDB

5 total - 3 not shared
  • Arctype SQL Client
  • Debezium
  • Helm
Independently observed
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