Comparison

Global Pricing and Licensing | Oracle vs PostgreSQL

Global Pricing and Licensing | Oracle lands on Depends, and PostgreSQL lands on Worth it.

Global Pricing and Licensing | Oracle

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Only large enterprises with dedicated license admins and real negotiation leverage should buy Oracle software.

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PostgreSQL

Worth it

Confidence: High

Buy if your team can write SQL and own database operations . it is free, powerful, and proven at massive scale.

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Global Pricing and Licensing | Oracle versus PostgreSQL
Compare	Global Pricing and Licensing \| Oracle	PostgreSQL
Verdict	Depends	Worth it
Best for	Large enterprises with license-admin teams	Engineering teams with SQL skills
Who it's not for	Startups and small teams	Non-technical teams that just need a shared spreadsheet
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^²	Mature and actively patched . but 2025-2026 brought real CVEs, including one exploited in the wild.¹⁵
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	Guess: community support; paid via EDB, Percona
Public sentiment	No independent reviews found; forum users consistently flag licensing complexity.^⁵	Developers consistently praise Postgres as robust, fast, and the default relational choice; the friction is operations, not the engine.¹¹
Biggest gotcha	Licensing is a maze; even forum regulars tell you to study the price list first^⁵	CVE-2025-1094 saw real-world exploitation; patching discipline is mandatory.

Pick Global Pricing and Licensing | Oracle when

Large enterprises with license-admin teams
Big orgs with negotiation leverage
Regulated industries needing hardened databases

When Global Pricing and Licensing | Oracle is not a fit

Startups and small teams
Anyone wanting simple, predictable pricing
Simple apps . use Postgres instead

Pick PostgreSQL when

Engineering teams with SQL skills
High-growth apps needing serious scale
Companies fleeing Oracle license costs
Cost-conscious startups

When PostgreSQL is not a fit

Non-technical teams that just need a shared spreadsheet
Solo users tracking contacts or small lists
Companies with no DBA and no managed-hosting budget
Buyers expecting vendor SLA support out of the box

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