EnterpriseDB announced
the results of a new benchmark study from McKnight
Consulting Group. The study confirms that EDB Postgres AI
delivers superior performance over Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL
across transactional, analytical, and AI workloads-offering unmatched speed,
cost efficiency, and scalability while giving enterprises full control over
their sovereign data.
Enterprises
need their IT budgets to go further for AI, but 55% is tied up in sustaining
existing business operations, including maintaining legacy systems, instead of
building a modern, sovereign data platform (Deloitte). Legacy technology
also blocks AI adoption, making modernization essential for agility, cost
efficiency, and innovation.
EDB Postgres AI
provides the solution enterprises need to stay ahead-simplifying and
modernizing their data infrastructure, eliminating legacy constraints, reducing
TCO, and scaling AI in a secure, sovereign environment. The 2024 McKnight
Consulting Group benchmark confirms that EDB Postgres AI delivers the superior
performance and efficiency to power this transformation.
“Agility
with open source is becoming a top priority for our customers as they look to
reduce OPEX, free up resources for innovation, and move towards an AI and
data-centric future. Our partnership with EDB enables enterprises to
confidently work with open-source solutions like EDB Postgres AI, unlocking
greater flexibility, scalability, and control over their data
infrastructure,” said Ashish Mohindroo, GM s& SVP, Nutanix Database
Service.
“This benchmark
highlights the critical role of database performance in AI-driven workloads.
EDB Postgres AI outperformed MongoDB in JSON processing-delivering
significantly better speed and efficiency in a test that mirrors RAG AI use
cases,” said William McKnight, President, McKnight Consulting Group. “For
enterprises, database choice isn’t just a technical decision-it’s a strategic
imperative for maximizing performance, optimizing costs, and ensuring future
scalability.”
Benchmark
Study Highlights
The 2024 McKnight
Consulting Group benchmark compared EDB Postgres AI with Oracle, SQL Server,
MongoDB, and MySQL in self-hosted environments. The results show a clear
advantage for EDB Postgres AI across performance and total cost of ownership
(TCO):
- 150x faster than MongoDB in processing JSON data
- 4x faster than MySQL in handling insert
operations - Outperformed Oracle by 17% and SQL
Server by 30% in
processing New Orders Per Minute (NOPM) - 7x better price performance than
Oracle and 6x
better than SQL Server (measured in cost per transaction)
“Modernizing application
and data infrastructure is no longer optional-it’s essential in a world where
data density, complexity, and agility define success. Through our work on
complex Oracle migrations, we’ve seen firsthand how critical it is to demonstrate
measurable ROI at every stage of the process,” said Satya Bolli, Chairman &
Managing Director, Prolifics. “The McKnight research validates what we
experience on the ground every day. Partnering with EDB enables us to deliver a
seamless, high-value migration path that not only maximizes efficiency but also
positions businesses for AI-driven innovation.”
Performance,
Data Sovereignty, and AI-Readiness in One Platform
Unlike legacy and
proprietary databases that struggle with scalability and cost inefficiencies,
EDB Postgres AI is built for enterprise demands of high performance,
sovereignty, and AI-readiness. EDB Postgres AI supports complex workloads while
giving organizations greater control over their most strategic asset-their data
infrastructure and AI.
“We decided
to embrace an open source software strategy, because we see it as far more
transparent, reliable, and secure. We know we can review the software at any
time, which gives us greater confidence in the functionality and its
configurability. Postgres gives us greater security than with any closed source
database, as well as far greater flexibility to switch vendors and avoid
expensive, traditional, perpetual licensing,” said EDB customer Christian
Blaesing, Head of IT, telegra.
Many enterprises
are also moving away from proprietary NoSQL databases like MongoDB, seeking
better query performance, SQL compatibility, and reduced operational
complexity.
“We were seeing
how much we were paying Oracle, and it was just incredibly high. It seemed to
be going up 10% to 15% per year. Moreover, we had a bunch of Oracle engineers
who were just sick of dealing with Oracle,” said John Lovato, Database
Architect, USDA Forest Service.
“The era of
overpriced, proprietary databases is over. This benchmark confirms there’s a
better way,” said Nancy Hensley, Chief Product Officer, EDB. “EDB
Postgres AI delivers breakthrough performance over Oracle, SQL Server, and
MongoDB-delivering a single, sovereign platform for data and AI without the
constraints or costs of legacy vendors.”
Benchmark
Report Now Available
For more information on the
benchmark study and EDB Postgres AI, visit https://www.enterprisedb.com/resources/benchmarks/mcknight
