etcd VS PostgreSQL

Compare etcd vs PostgreSQL and see what are their differences.

etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system (by etcd-io)

PostgreSQL

Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch (by postgres)
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etcd PostgreSQL
61 405
46,345 14,673
1.1% 3.4%
9.9 10.0
1 day ago 4 days ago
Go C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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etcd

Posts with mentions or reviews of etcd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-16.
  • Oracle Linux 8.8'de PostgreSQL 13 Yedekli Yapı Nasıl Kurulur? - Patroni, ETCD, HAProxy
    1 project | dev.to | 7 Dec 2023
    sudo dnf -y install curl wget vim ETCD_RELEASE=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/etcd-io/etcd/releases/latest|grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4) echo $ETCD_RELEASE wget https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/download/${ETCD_RELEASE}/etcd-${ETCD_RELEASE}-linux-amd64.tar.gz tar xvf etcd-${ETCD_RELEASE}-linux-amd64.tar.gz cd etcd-${ETCD_RELEASE}-linux-amd64 sudo mv etcd* /usr/local/bin ls /usr/local/bin /usr/local/bin/etcd --version
  • Transitioning from more traditional OOP like C# to Go, what are the biggest coding style differences.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 16 Nov 2023
    Reading the standard library will give you ideas/insight about various Go idiomatic patterns/approaches, and you can see a full website/API implementation in the pkg.go.dev repository (https://github.com/golang/pkgsite). Projects like https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd may be interesting too.
  • Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems: Strategies and Case Studies
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 Oct 2023
    Failure Detection and Recovery It’s not enough to have backup systems. It’s also crucial to detect failures quickly. Modern systems employ monitoring tools and rely on distributed coordination systems such as Zookeeper or etcd to identify faults in real-time: once detected, recovery mechanisms are triggered to restore the service.
  • The Complete Microservices Guide
    17 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2023
    Service Discovery: Microservices need to discover and communicate with each other dynamically. Service discovery tools like etcd, Consul, or Kubernetes built-in service discovery mechanisms help locate and connect to microservices running on different nodes within the infrastructure.
  • How is Apache APISIX Fast?
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Sep 2023
    APISIX uses etcd to store and synchronize configurations.
  • Apache APISIX without etcd
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2023
    etcd is an excellent key-value distributed database used internally by Kubernetes and managed by the CNCF. It's a great option, and that's the reason why Apache APISIX uses it too. Yet, it's not devoid of issues.
  • From /etc to database
    1 project | /r/BSD | 11 Jul 2023
    Someone on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36682595) suggested etcd (https://etcd.io)
  • Evaluating Apache APISIX vs. Spring Cloud Gateway
    3 projects | dev.to | 22 Jun 2023
    In traditional mode, APISIX stores its configuration in etcd. APISIX offers a rich API to access and update the configuration, the Admin API. In standalone mode, the configuration is just plain YAML. It's the approach for GitOps practitioners: you'd store your configuration in a Git repo, watch it via your favorite tool (e.g., Argo CD or Tekton), and the latter would propagate the changes to APISIX nodes upon changes. APISIX reloads its configuration every second or so.
  • Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2023
  • RedisRaft
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2023
    I am not sure neither. But this might overcome the etcd's soft storage limit of 8GB? [1]

    [1] https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/9771

PostgreSQL

Posts with mentions or reviews of PostgreSQL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-25.
  • Integrate txtai with Postgres
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2024
    Another key feature of txtai is being able to quickly move from prototyping to production. This article will demonstrate how txtai can integrate with Postgres, a powerful, production-ready and open source object-relational database system. After txtai persists content to Postgres, we'll show it can be directly queried with SQL from any Postgres client
  • Understanding SQL vs. NoSQL Databases: A Beginner's Guide
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    SQL (Structured Query Language) databases are relational databases. They organize data into tables with rows and columns, and they use SQL for querying and managing data. Examples include MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
  • From zero to hero: using SQL databases in Node.js made easy
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Mar 2024
    Node.js, MySQL and PostgreSQL servers installed on your machine
  • I Deployed My Own Cute Lil’ Private Internet (a.k.a. VPC)
    8 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Each app’s front end is built with Qwik and uses Tailwind for styling. The server-side is powered by Qwik City (Qwik’s official meta-framework) and runs on Node.js hosted on a shared Linode VPS. The apps also use PM2 for process management and Caddy as a reverse proxy and SSL provisioner. The data is stored in a PostgreSQL database that also runs on a shared Linode VPS. The apps interact with the database using Drizzle, an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) for JavaScript. The entire infrastructure for both apps is managed with Terraform using the Terraform Linode provider, which was new to me, but made provisioning and destroying infrastructure really fast and easy (once I learned how it all worked).
  • How to dump and restore a Postgres DB with new table ownership
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    I've used MySQL for years. But recently, I found myself working PostgreSQL and simple things like dumping and restoring a database are different enough that I decided to document the process. It's straightforward enough once I knew how.
  • Test Driving a Rails API - Part One
    11 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    A running Rails application needs a database to connect to. You may already have your database of choice installed, but if not, I recommend PostgreSQL, or Postgres for short. On a Mac, probably the easiest way to install it is with Posrgres.app. Another option, the one I prefer, is to use Homebrew. With Homebrew installed, this command will install PostgreSQL version 16 along with libpq:
  • Um júnior e um teste técnico: The battle.
    5 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2024
    PostgreSQL
  • How to choose the right type of database
    15 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2024
    PostgreSQL: Offers a robust feature set and strong compliance with SQL standards, making it suitable for a wide range of applications, from simple to complex, particularly where data integrity and extensibility are key.
  • NoSQL Postgres: Add MongoDB compatibility to your Supabase projects with FerretDB
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2024
    FerretDB is an open source document database that adds MongoDB compatibility to other database backends, such as Postgres and SQLite. By using FerretDB, developers can access familiar MongoDB features and tools using the same syntax and commands for many of their use cases.
  • Preventing SQL injection attacks in Node.js
    6 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2024
    To better understand how SQL injection works, let's quickly create a vulnerable app using Node.js, Express, and a PostgreSQL database. The application takes user input from a form, constructs a SQL query, and executes it against the database to fetch some data.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing etcd and PostgreSQL you can also consider the following projects:

consul - Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

psycopg2 - PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language

minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure

ClickHouse - ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data

Vault - A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

phpMyAdmin - A web interface for MySQL and MariaDB

Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper

Firebird - FB/Java plugin for Firebird

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

SQLAlchemy - The Database Toolkit for Python