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24 alternatives to pganalyze Index Advisor – A better way to index your Postgres database

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pganalyze Index Advisor helps PostgreSQL database administrators and developers optimize their databases by identifying and suggesting the best indexes to create. Launched in 2021, it analyzes database performance to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. pganalyze Index Advisor – A better way to index your Postgres database launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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pganalyze Index Advisor for Postgres▲78
A better way to index your Postgres database
2021 · pganalyze.com · its alternatives →
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PostgreSQL index advisor▲417
This is a Postgres extension that can determine if a query should have an index. For example, for this table: create table book( id int primary key, title text not null ); You can run `index_advisor()` to see if there should be an index on a select statement: select * from index_advisor('select book.id from book where title = $1'); And it will return (summarized): {"CREATE INDEX ON public.book USING btree (title)"} It works particularly well with pg_stat_statements[0] which tracks execution statistics of all SQL statements executed on your Postgres database. It leans heavily on HypoPG[1], an…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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pganalyze▲84
Automated EXPLAIN Plan Visualization & Insights for Postgres
2019 · pganalyze.com · its alternatives →
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pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans▲321
A flamegraph generator for Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE output. - mgartner/pg_flame
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PostgresML, now with analytics and project management▲444
We've been hard at work for a few weeks and thought it's time for another update. In case you missed our first post, PostgresML is an end-to-end machine learning solution, running alongside your favorite database. This time we have more of a suite offering: project management, visibility into the datasets and the deployment pipeline decision making. Let us know what you think! Demo link is on the page, and also here: https://demo.postgresml.org
2022 · postgresml.org · its alternatives →
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PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue▲376
PgQueuer is a Python job queue that uses PostgreSQL for everything — queue storage, locking, notifications. No Redis, no RabbitMQ, no separate broker to operate. If your app already has Postgres, you already have the broker. After ~2 years and 26 minor releases, 1.0 ships today as the first stable release. Strict semver from here on. Thanks to everyone who contributed and left feedback!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Postgres Playground▲161
Hands-on tutorials to learn Postgres
2022 · crunchydata.com · its alternatives →
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PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app▲326
Hey HN! Lev and Justin here, authors of PgDog (https://pgdog.dev/), a connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder for PostgreSQL. If you build apps with a lot of traffic, you know the first thing to break is the database. We are solving this with a network proxy that works without requiring application code changes or database migrations. Our post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187 The most important update: we are in production. Sharding is used a lot, with direct-to-shard queries (one shard per query) working pretty much…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A user interface for Postgres EXPLAIN that also gives tips▲50
pgMustard is a Postgres EXPLAIN visualisation tool that also gives performance advice, scored based on its potential to speed up your query.
2019 · pgmustard.com · its alternatives →
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PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types▲97
Hey! I'm Andrei. I got frustrated by how people tend to build overcomplicated backend systems, being "motivated" by big tech case studies and popular books. So, I started exploring lean architecture, and building my digital garden of ideas, approaches and data that align with this direction. Here I want to present one of the tools – Sizing tool for PostgreSQL. I've benchmarked PostgreSQL on different EC2 instances and disks, with different initial data sets to see performance that these instances can give you. And I've built a tool to visualize this data, which I welcome you to explore. So,…
Jul 2026 · postgres.saneengineer.com · its alternatives →
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Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution▲332
Vectorized executor to speed up PostgreSQL. Contribute to citusdata/postgres_vectorization_test development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics▲209
Hi HN! We're Evgeny and Arjun, and we’re building a better way to do analytics with Postgres. We love Postgres for its simplicity, power, and rich ecosystem. But engineers have to still get bogged down with heavyweight and expensive OLAP systems when connecting an analytics data stack. Postgres is amazing at OLTP queries, but not for OLAP queries (large data scans and aggregations). Even in this case, we’ve still heard from countless scaling startups that they still try to use only a read replica to run analytics workloads since they don’t want to deal with the data engineering complexity of…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Postgres as a VectorDB GUI▲162
Contribute to Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Postgres extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search▲203
Last summer we faced a conundrum at my company, Tiger Data, a Postgres cloud vendor whose main business is in timeseries data. We were trying to grow our business towards emerging AI-centric workloads and wanted to provide a state-of-the-art hybrid search stack in Postgres. We'd already built pgvectorscale in house with the goal of scaling semantic search beyond pgvector's main memory limitations. We just needed a scalable ranked keyword search solution too. The problem: core Postgres doesn't provide this; the leading Postgres BM25 extension, ParadeDB, is guarded behind AGPL; developing our…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mathesar – open-source collaborative UI for Postgres databases▲281
Hi HN! We just released the public alpha version of Mathesar (https://mathesar.org/, code: https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar). Mathesar is an open source tool that provides a spreadsheet-like interface to a PostgreSQL database. I was originally inspired by wanting to build something like Dabble DB. I was in awe of their user experience for working with relational data. There’s plenty of “relational spreadsheet” software out there, but I haven’t been able to find anything with a comparable UX since Twitter shut Dabble DB down. We're a non-profit…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres▲269
hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open source, column-oriented postgres. you can set up remarkably fast aggregates on your project in minutes to query billions of rows instantly. postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without making code changes. data is automatically loaded into columnar format and compressed. connect to hydra with your preferred postgres client (psql, dbeaver, etc). following 4 months…
2023 · hydra-so.notion.site · its alternatives →
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Pg_analytica – Speed up queries by exporting tables to columnar format▲42
Postgres extension that speeds up analytics queries by upto 90% - sushrut141/pg_analytica
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno▲257
Postgres.js - The Fastest full featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js, Deno, Bun and CloudFlare - porsager/postgres
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Postgres query lock explainer▲143
This is like 4 years old, but I’m braver now and ready to share stuff with this community. I’ve been a lurker for a while. I made this tool - it’s kind of like “explain” but it tells you about what locks would be required by the query. I was making it as part of a larger tool that would try to prevent deadlocks during migrations at my last company, I never finished it.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Outerbase▲295
The interface for your database
2023 · its alternatives →
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PG Extras – a set of tools for debugging PostgreSQL performance issues▲12
PostgreSQL database queries are a common performance bottleneck for web apps. Before you resort to more complex optimization techniques like caching or read replicas, you should double-check if your database engine does not need tuning and queries are not underperforming. In this blog post, I presen
2021 · pawelurbanek.com · its alternatives →
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GraphQL for Postgres▲195
GraphQL for Postgres. Contribute to solidsnack/GraphpostgresQL development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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pg_plan_guarantee – Postgres Query Optimizer Hints, on Steroids.▲46
Postgres Query Optimizer Extension that guarantees your desired plan will not change - DrPostgres/pg_plan_guarantee
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ZomboDB – Postgres extension for indexes backed by Elasticsearch▲88
Making Postgres and Elasticsearch work together like it's 2023 - zombodb/zombodb
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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