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Users appreciate the enterprise-grade support and features of EDB Postgres Advanced Server, enhancing stability for mission-critical applications. (7 mentions)
Users value the cost-effective solution of EDB Postgres Advanced Server, realizing reduced total cost of ownership. (3 mentions)
Users value the enterprise-grade support of EDB Postgres Advanced Server, enhancing reliability and user satisfaction. (3 mentions)
Users benefit from the powerful data analytics features of EDB Postgres Advanced Server, enhancing data management capabilities. (3 mentions)
Users value the Oracle compatibility of EDB Postgres Advanced Server, enhancing integration and database management capabilities. (2 mentions)
Users face connection issues that hinder performance and complicate the overall experience with EDB Postgres Advanced Server. (1 mentions)
Users are concerned about cost issues, citing that updates and additional features can raise operational expenses significantly. (1 mentions)
Users find the expensive nature of EDB Postgres Advanced Server a significant drawback, impacting overall value for money. (1 mentions)
Users find the high hardware requirements of EDB Postgres Advanced Server lead to increased operational costs and resource demands. (1 mentions)
Users note the high resource consumption of EDB Postgres Advanced Server, leading to increased operational costs and time-consuming updates. (1 mentions)

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EDB Postgres Advanced Server Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Hardened, audit-ready pipelines ensure onlu immutable, approved components are used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

The solution is great overall and solution not only suplorts different types of applications but also simplify IT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MW
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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Command-line data migration tool

Advanced logical replication for PostgreSQL

Browser-based schema migration tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Serves me as I expected so I can't complain or regret any of its features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SM
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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

More than 200 predefined reusable time-saving utility functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Low-level system and session wait events take some time to find bottlenects when performing diagnostics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

The fact that you get a clear migration path away from proprietary databases is itself the biggest relief. Also to add enterprise grade toolkit to help with anything postgreSQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

It is currently limited to Oracle compatibility, though the options to migration from other databases do exist, Oracle compatibility is the only comprehensive availability. Would like to see usecases for Mssql etc.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BS
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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

SQL injection protection / SQL firewall

Session tag auditing

Password policy management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

It requires some skills especially to monitor the query performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kiran B.
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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Easy to manage and maintain.

I have used EDB on EC2 and EDB managed service is the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

I'm haven't found any specific things to dislike. So would not like to comment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

The upsides were the versatility and the flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Pure anecdotal but from what I’ve heard, it’s difficult if you really want to replace your oracle database you can do that. How ever Oracle is so tightly integrated you end up having two systems anyway.

Not really an enterprise DB issue per se Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

PostgreSQL environment with the Premium Support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

PPCD - Need the Scale down option for EBS Volume Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pandian R.
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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Light weight, simple to learn and having all features supported by other servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Performance getting dropped sometime, could be find the root cause from my end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SUBHA P.
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What do you like best about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

Has a good compatability with Oracle.The EDB Migration toolkit that migrates Oracle database to PostgreSQL is supercool.

Infinite Cache implemented with PPAS was definitely an addon

xDB replication that allows to use multi master replication that was not the case with traditional PostgreSQL which use master slave replication only

Postgres Enterprise Manager (ie PEM) has good sophisticated features when compared to pgAmin including large deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EDB Postgres Advanced Server?

PPAS has minimum support features for using PostGIS which is useful for Geographical Information Systems

Xdb multi master replication sometime leads to catalog corruption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.