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Percona Backup for MongoDB vs pghoard: What are the differences?
Percona Backup for MongoDB: A fully supported, open source, community backup tool for performing consistent hot backups in MongoDB. It is a distributed, low-impact solution for achieving consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. It supports Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB Community v3.6 or higher with MongoDB Replication enabled. It is an alternative for users who want a fully supported community backup tool, but do not want to pay for MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager. With easy command-line interface, you can perform consistent backup/restore of clusters and non-sharded replica sets, and improve cluster backup consistency. This saves you time and effort if you are implementing MongoDB backups for the first time; pghoard: Tools for making PostgreSQL backups to cloud object storages. pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling for cloud object storages.
Percona Backup for MongoDB and pghoard can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.
Some of the features offered by Percona Backup for MongoDB are:
- Compression
- Differential Backup
- Disaster Recovery
On the other hand, pghoard provides the following key features:
- Automatic periodic basebackups
- Automatic transaction log (WAL/xlog) backups (using either pgreceivexlog or archivecommand)
- Cloud object storage support (AWS S3, Google Cloud, OpenStack Swift, Azure, Ceph)
pghoard is an open source tool with 977 GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks. Here's a link to pghoard's open source repository on GitHub.
