# EDB Postgres vs YugabyteDB

| Attribute | EDB Postgres | YugabyteDB |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 36.4 (72% (medium)) | 53.3 (18% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 0 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 67 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"EDB Postgres combines PostgreSQL with AI-ready infrastructure, analytics capabilities without ETL, and high-availability support across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform provides automatic failover, data migration tools, and enterprise monitoring—designed for mission-critical and data-intensive workloads. It is indexed under Relational Databases.","source":"https://www.enterprisedb.com","question":"What is EDB Postgres?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"EDB Postgres supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.enterprisedb.com","question":"What platforms does EDB Postgres support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. EDB Postgres can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.enterprisedb.com","question":"Can EDB Postgres be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 15 integrations for EDB Postgres, including JDBC Connectors, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, HBASE, MySQL, Amazon S3 and Parquet, plus 7 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.enterprisedb.com","question":"What does EDB Postgres integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for EDB Postgres. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as EDB Postgres not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.enterprisedb.com","question":"What security certifications does EDB Postgres have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"A cloud-native database merging the transactional guarantees and SQL compatibility of relational databases with the horizontal scalability of NoSQL systems. Designed for mission-critical, real-time OLTP applications requiring strong data consistency across large, distributed datasets. It is indexed under Relational Databases.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com","question":"What is YugabyteDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"YugabyteDB offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $125 per vCPU per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com","question":"Is YugabyteDB free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. YugabyteDB can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com","question":"Can YugabyteDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for YugabyteDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as YugabyteDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.yugabyte.com/trust","question":"What security certifications does YugabyteDB have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | An open-source distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native deployments that provides PostgreSQL compatibility with high performance and horizontal scalability. |
| features.capabilities | `{"isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"self_hosted","serverless":false,"consistency":"strong","replication":"async","extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"license_class":"permissive","horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","acid_transactions":"full","automatic_failover":true,"wire_compatibility":"postgres"}` | `{"isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"self_hosted","consistency":"strong","replication":"consensus","extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"license_class":"permissive","horizontal_scale":"distributed_native","acid_transactions":"full","automatic_failover":true,"wire_compatibility":"postgres"}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"JDBC Connectors"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"Hadoop"},{"name":"HBASE"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Parquet"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager)"},{"name":"xDB Replication Server"},{"name":"EFM (EDB Failover Manager)"},{"name":"Backup and Recovery Tool"},{"name":"HARP"},{"name":"ETCD"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":true},{"name":"EDB Postgres Advanced Server","native":true},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Ansible","native":true,"category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"PEM","native":true,"category":"monitoring"},{"name":"EFM","native":true,"category":"monitoring"}]` | `[{"name":"Arctype SQL Client"},{"name":"Debezium","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true},{"name":"Helm","native":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":false}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.enterprisedb.com","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T13:49:53.319Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$125/vCPU/month","features":["PostgreSQL API (YSQL)","Cassandra API (YCQL)","Change Data Capture","Single-region fault tolerance","PostgreSQL extensions","Role Based Access Control","Encryption in transit and at rest","VPC Peering and Private Link","Data migration with YugabyteDB Voyager","REST API and CLI automation","Automated backups and security patching","Built-in metrics and alerts"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"vCPU","amount":125,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Good for startups and scale-ups needing seamless scalability, availability, and zone-level resilience.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","summary":"$167/vCPU/month","features":["All Standard features","Multi-region stretched clusters","Read Replicas","Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency","Performance Advisor","Export metrics to 3rd party tools","Export audit logs","Send alerts to external tools"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"vCPU","amount":167,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For global businesses that need advanced multi-region capabilities, region-level resilience, scalability, and/or compliance with data residency requirements.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing - contact sales","features":["All Professional features","Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest","Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)"],"description":"Designed for enterprises needing advanced multi-region capabilities, higher performance and availability, or enterprise security features.","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery"},{"name":"Enterprise Integrations"}],"summary":"From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.yugabyte.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:42:28.770Z","startingPrice":{"amount":125,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 20 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v15.0","date":"2023-04-28T17:04:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.14.0","date":"2023-02-21T17:21:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.13.0","date":"2023-01-20T20:06:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.12.1","date":"2022-12-15T16:13:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.12.0","date":"2022-12-15T07:49:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.11.1","date":"2022-08-23T14:27:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.11.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.11.0","date":"2022-04-06T15:04:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.10.3","date":"2022-03-08T15:44:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.10.2","date":"2022-03-04T16:28:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.10.1","date":"2022-02-09T17:45:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.10.0","date":"2022-02-04T15:13:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.9.3","date":"2022-01-28T14:53:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.9.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.9.2","date":"2022-01-25T09:16:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.9.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.9.1","date":"2022-01-06T17:14:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.9.0","date":"2022-01-04T14:30:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.8.0","date":"2021-12-15T14:28:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.7.1","date":"2021-11-17T16:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2021-11-02T14:40:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.6.7","date":"2021-10-04T16:18:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/postgres-deployment/releases/tag/v3.6.6","date":"2021-09-28T06:55:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.6"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.999 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 2.5 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=edb-deployment&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Relational Databases)

| Capability | EDB Postgres | YugabyteDB |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| SQL model | Full SQL | Full SQL |
| **Transactions** |  |  |
| ACID transactions | Full | Full |
| Highest isolation level | Serializable | Serializable |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | Strong | Strong |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Horizontal scale | Natively distributed | Natively distributed |
| **Replication** |  |  |
| Replication | Async | Consensus (Raft/Paxos) |
| **Availability** |  |  |
| Automatic failover / HA | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| Serverless / scale-to-zero | ✗ | - |
| **Compatibility** |  |  |
| Wire compatibility | Postgres protocol | Postgres protocol |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| Extensions / plugins / UDFs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |
| **Data types** |  |  |
| JSON / document support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Geo / spatial | - | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:01:30.983Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*