Ora2Pg vs pgloader

Ora2Pg is free, self-hosted software for assessing and migrating databases to PostgreSQL. It scans Oracle databases, extracts structures or data, and generates SQL; the site also lists MySQL as a source and mentions MariaDB and Microsoft SQL Server migration. Reports can estimate migration difficulty and cost. Exports include tables, views, indexes, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures, and packages, with basic automatic PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL conversion. Data can be exported completely or selected with a WHERE clause, including Oracle BLOBs as PostgreSQL BYTEA. Ora2Pg can generate Pentaho Data Integrator XML, send spatial geometries to PostGIS, and export DBLINK as Oracle FDW. By default it writes files for psql loading, while direct PostgreSQL import is available after configuring a connection. Oracle migrations require Perl 5.10 or later, DBI, and Oracle client libraries; other sources need their drivers and client dependencies. Generated Oracle-specific PL/SQL may require manual review and changes. The software is distributed under GPL version 3 or later.

pgloader migrates database and flat-file data into PostgreSQL using schema translation, casting rules, and parallel loading. Listed sources are MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, SQLite, CSV, fixed-width files, and DBF; Oracle support is not built yet. Its pipeline fetches the source catalog, prepares the PostgreSQL target, runs parallel COPY, creates indexes in parallel, and completes the schema. MySQL handling includes enum translation, converting TINYINT(1) to boolean, zero-date handling, and looking up credentials in .my.cnf. The MS SQL Server path includes Azure AD authentication, sequence migration, and multi-column foreign keys. For file imports, rejected rows can be separated after a failed COPY transaction while accepted rows continue loading. Custom casting rules go in a .load file. Version 3 in Common Lisp is the stable packaged release; version 4 is a pre-release JAR requiring Java 21 or later. The free Community tier has best-effort GitHub support. Paid support starts at €100/mo, with higher tiers offering priority handling, SLA-triaged patches, roadmap input, or issue-based support. It is self-hosted on Linux.