Azure Database for PostgreSQL vs. PostgreSQL Data Access Components vs. Postico vs. SQL Server Data Access Components Comparison Chart

Focus on application innovation, not database management, with a fully managed and intelligent Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Scale your workload quickly with ease and confidence. Enjoy high availability with a service-level agreement (SLA) of up to 99.99 percent uptime and a choice of same-zone or zone-redundant high availability, AI-powered performance recommendations, and built-in enterprise security. Focus on application innovation with a fully managed PostgreSQL database as a service. The zone-redundant high availability automates maintenance, patching, and updates. Provision in minutes and independently scale compute or storage. Decrease costs with comprehensive database monitoring and optimization tools. Take advantage of intelligent performance recommendations to help ensure peak performance. Migrate with ease using a fully managed PostgreSQL database with support for the latest versions. Build with your favorite PostgreSQL extensions such as Cron, PostGIS, PLV8, etc.

Postico is a database client. Postico can connect to a local PostgreSQL server running on your Mac, or to remote servers running on a different computer. If you want to install a local PostgreSQL server on your Mac, I recommend Postgres.app. Postgres.app starts a PostgreSQL server running locally on your Mac. The first time it starts it will automatically create a new data directory and set up an empty database. After a few moments, the server will be running and waiting for connections. Postgres.app can't start when another PostgreSQL server is already running on your computer. If you run into problems, make sure to deactivate or uninstall other PostgreSQL installations. Reboot your computer after uninstalling! To connect to a PostgreSQL server with Postico, you must first create a favorite. A favorite contains parameters for connecting to a server. Some connection parameters are optional.