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PostgreSQL vs YugabyteDB

On the evidence we track, PostgreSQL leads this comparison with a composite score of 61/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★PostgreSQL61
YugabyteDB53
Score
vioscaleAI score
PostgreSQL61 / 100medium · 60%
YugabyteDB53 / 100low · 18%
Pricing
Free tier
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB✓
Model
PostgreSQLopen_source
YugabyteDBopen_source
Price level
PostgreSQLfree
YugabyteDBfree
Transparent
PostgreSQL–
YugabyteDB✓
Integrations
Count
PostgreSQL6
YugabyteDB4
Security
Disclosure policy
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB✓
Gdpr
PostgreSQL–
YugabyteDB✓
Iso27001
PostgreSQL–
YugabyteDB✓
Scorecard
PostgreSQL6.1
YugabyteDB–
Soc2
PostgreSQL–
YugabyteDB✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
PostgreSQL–
YugabyteDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
PostgreSQL0
YugabyteDB–
Github stars
PostgreSQL22,285
YugabyteDB–
Stackoverflow questions
PostgreSQL170,000
YugabyteDB–
Activity
Commits last 30d
PostgreSQL100
YugabyteDB–
Release
Cadence days
PostgreSQL90
YugabyteDB–
License
Spdx
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
YugabyteDB–
Language
Primary
PostgreSQLC
YugabyteDB–
Market
Availability
PostgreSQLAvailable worldwide
YugabyteDB–
Content
Faq
PostgreSQL8 items
YugabyteDB4 items

Capabilities

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

Core
SQL model
PostgreSQLFull SQL
YugabyteDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
PostgreSQLFull
YugabyteDBFull
Highest isolation level
PostgreSQL-
YugabyteDBSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
PostgreSQL-
YugabyteDBStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
PostgreSQLRead replicas
YugabyteDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
PostgreSQL-
YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
PostgreSQLSelf-hosted
YugabyteDBSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
PostgreSQL✗
YugabyteDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
PostgreSQL-
YugabyteDBPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
PostgreSQLPermissive OSS
YugabyteDBPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB✓
Geo / spatial
PostgreSQLExtension
YugabyteDB-

What each one is

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

PostgreSQL

Leader

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database with over 35 years of active development. It supports transactions, user-defined functions, and a broad subset of SQL, widely used for data storage and retrieval in applications ranging from small projects to enterprise deployments.

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.

PostgreSQL

Leader
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
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB–
Windows
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB–
Linux
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB✓
Self-hosted
PostgreSQL✓
YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

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

PostgreSQL

Leader
10 total
  • CloudNativePG
  • Kubernetes
  • Patroni
  • pgAdmin
  • pgVector
  • PostGIS
  • pgAudit
  • Spock
  • Cilium
  • Submariner
Independently observed

YugabyteDB

5 total
  • Arctype SQL Client
  • Debezium
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • PostgreSQL
Independently observed
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