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PostgreSQL vs DBngin: catalog facts
PostgreSQL	DBngin
Free Free and open source under the PostgreSQL Licence, a permissive licence similar to BSD and…	Free Completely free, developed and maintained by TablePlus.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS
Over 35 years of development with a strong reputation for reliability and correctness Extensible with custom types, index methods and procedural languages; PostGIS and pgvector are built on that	One-click start for local database servers Runs natively without Docker or a virtual machine
Default configuration is conservative and needs tuning for real workloads Built-in replication and failover require third-party tooling to become a full HA setup	Closed source No Linux version
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: PostgreSQL	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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