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Pros of Confluent
Pros of PostgreSQL
  • 4
    Free for casual use
  • 3
    No hypercloud lock-in
  • 3
    Dashboard for kafka insight
  • 2
    Easily scalable
  • 2
    Zero devops
  • 763
    Relational database
  • 510
    High availability
  • 439
    Enterprise class database
  • 383
    Sql
  • 304
    Sql + nosql
  • 173
    Great community
  • 147
    Easy to setup
  • 131
    Heroku
  • 130
    Secure by default
  • 113
    Postgis
  • 50
    Supports Key-Value
  • 48
    Great JSON support
  • 34
    Cross platform
  • 33
    Extensible
  • 28
    Replication
  • 26
    Triggers
  • 23
    Multiversion concurrency control
  • 23
    Rollback
  • 21
    Open source
  • 18
    Heroku Add-on
  • 17
    Stable, Simple and Good Performance
  • 15
    Powerful
  • 13
    Lets be serious, what other SQL DB would you go for?
  • 11
    Good documentation
  • 9
    Scalable
  • 8
    Free
  • 8
    Reliable
  • 8
    Intelligent optimizer
  • 7
    Transactional DDL
  • 7
    Modern
  • 6
    One stop solution for all things sql no matter the os
  • 5
    Relational database with MVCC
  • 5
    Faster Development
  • 4
    Full-Text Search
  • 4
    Developer friendly
  • 3
    Excellent source code
  • 3
    Free version
  • 3
    Great DB for Transactional system or Application
  • 3
    Relational datanbase
  • 3
    search
  • 3
    Open-source
  • 2
    Text
  • 2
    Full-text
  • 1
    Can handle up to petabytes worth of size
  • 1
    Composability
  • 1
    Multiple procedural languages supported
  • 0
    Native

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Cons of Confluent
Cons of PostgreSQL
  • 1
    Proprietary
  • 10
    Table/index bloatings

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What is Confluent?

It is a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka: a full-scale streaming platform, capable of not only publish-and-subscribe, but also the storage and processing of data within the stream

What is PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

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