MySQL Heatwave vs. PostgreSQL

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MySQL Heatwave
Score 6.4 out of 10
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HeatWave is an in-memory query accelerator developed for Oracle MySQL Database Service. It’s a massively parallel, hybrid, columnar, query-processing engine with algorithms for distributed query processing that provide high performance for queries.N/A
PostgreSQL
Score 8.3 out of 10
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PostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.N/A
Pricing
MySQL HeatwavePostgreSQL
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
MySQL HeatwavePostgreSQL
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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Usability
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8.0
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Availability
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9.0
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Performance
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7.0
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Support Rating
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9.3
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Implementation Rating
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9.0
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Product Scalability
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User Testimonials
MySQL HeatwavePostgreSQL
Likelihood to Recommend
MySQL Heatwave is suitable for data mining and data analysis for platforms like OLAP. This is very cost effective tool in comparison with peer softwares. Oracle provides multiple pricing options for use of to this software. Which makes the choice of many needee crowd for large number of applications for data handling. It provides the access to database al also.
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PostgreSQL is ideal for handling databases that contain large volumes of information due to its efficiency, speed and above all because of the good management it makes of our resources, it also behaves very well in distributed environments of high demand, if you want a database of stable data and excellent performance PostgreSQL is one of the best.
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Pros
  • Data mining
  • Data analysis
  • Parallel computing
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  • Advanced spatial capabilities by using PostGIS extension
  • Very fast data processing and support of native ANSI SQL language syntax allows maintaining capability and scalability of database
  • Fast data aggregation, even by SQL or stored routines/functions
  • Well documented, free for use, great community. A lot of examples, and for this reason - lesser threshold for junior developers to start with
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Cons
  • Pricing can be a concern if not configured properly
  • Not available as a standalone or on premise offering. Only available through OCI
  • No Jobs interface like that in Databricks with Spark and Delta Lake
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  • The performance of PostgreSQL has been enhanced through the years, but always is better to have as much performance as we can.
  • The replication services could be done directly within the database, and more easily.
  • The Object Orientation of the Database could be extended, and albeit it manages inheritance of tables, and accepts XML and JSON as primary types, it would be wonderful if one could attach methods more easily to tables (to make them more like classes), and instances (rows for example).
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Likelihood to Renew
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As a needed software for day to day development activities
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Usability
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Postgresql is the best tool out there for relational data so I have to give it a high rating when it comes to analytics, data availability and consistency, so on and so forth. SQL is also a relatively consistent language so when it comes to building new tables and loading data in from the OLTP database, there are enough tools where we can perform ETL on a scalable basis.
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Reliability and Availability
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PostgreSQL's availability is top notch. Apart from connection time-out for an idle user, the database is super reliable.
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Performance
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The data queries are relatively quick for a small to medium sized table. With complex joins, and a wide and deep table however, the performance of the query has room for improvement.
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Support Rating
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AWS, Heroku, and Digital Ocean all provide Postgres-as-a-service, where you pretty much never need to administrate it yourself but they do it for you. The Postgres community also has developed awesome and reasonably priced extensions, such as Citus DB and CockroachDB in case you need additional support for running it. If you need documentation, Postgres's docs are super thorough and their official forms are active.
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Online Training
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The online training is request based. Had there been recorded videos available online for potential users to benefit from, I could have rated it higher. The online documentation however is very helpful. The online documentation PDF is downloadable and allows users to pace their own learning. With examples and code snippets, the documentation is great starting point.
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Implementation Rating
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The online documentation of the PostgreSQL product is elaborate and takes users step by step.
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Alternatives Considered
There is no other product in the market like MySQL Heatwave. The other competitive offerings are Databricks Lakehouse and Cloudera which essentially are Data Analytics Platforms and Data Warehousing Solutions. They do have SQL interfaces through Delta Lake and Hive but they run complicated Spark Jobs which are time consuming and much slower than MySQL Heatwave.
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In this case, Postgres is preferred because it handles large data sets and requires fewer hardware resources than its competitor, MySQL. Compared to PostgreSQL, Microsoft products are excellent, but the installation process for MS SQL is lengthy. PostgreSQL has an advantage over its competitors in that it can adapt or configure third-party programs, applications, or settings.
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Scalability
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The DB is reliable, scalable, easy to use and resolves most DB needs
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Return on Investment
  • We no longer have to write data pipelines in Spark anymore for executing ML/Analytics Workloads
  • Execution time of the analytics platforms has reduced considerably
  • Overall time to market has gone down drastically
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  • Easy to administer so our DevOps team has only ever used minimal time to setup, tune, and maintain.
  • Easy to interface with so our Engineering team has only ever used minimal time to query or modify the database. Getting the data is straightforward, what we do with it is the bigger concern.
  • It's free. You can't beat that.
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