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Products that do what PgQueuer – Over 5k Jobs/SEC with PostgreSQL does

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PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue▲376
PgQueuer is a minimalist, high-performance job queue library for Python, leveraging the robustness of PostgreSQL. Designed for simplicity and efficiency, PgQueuer uses PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY to manage job queues effortlessly.
2024 · github.com
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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
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PgDog▲227
Scale PostgreSQL without changing your app
Jul 2026 · pgdog.dev
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GraphQL for Postgres▲195
2015 · github.com
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Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution▲332
2014 · github.com
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PgCat, Postgres pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover▲233
2022 · github.com
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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
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PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL▲378
Hi everyone — thanks for your interest in PRQL — let us know any questions or feedback! We're excited to be releasing 0.2[1], the first version of PRQL you can use in your own projects. It wouldn't exist without the feedback we got from HackerNews when we originally posted the proposal. [1]: https://github.com/prql/prql/releases/tag/0.2.0
2022 · github.com
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PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions▲307
Hey HN! Lev here, author of PgDog (https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog). I’m scaling our favorite database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is a new open source proxy, written in Rust, with first-class support for sharding — without changes to your app or needing database extensions. Here’s a walkthrough of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sebczWZ-c Running Postgres at scale is hard. Eventually, one primary isn’t enough at which point you need to split it up. Since there is currently no good tooling out there to do this, teams end up breaking their apps…
2025 · github.com
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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
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PRQL in PostgreSQL▲267
This extension let's you write PRQL functions in PostgreSQL. When I first saw PRQL on Hacker News a few months ago, I was immediately captivated by the idea, yet equally disappointed that there was no integration for PostgreSQL. Having previous experience with writing PostgreSQL extensions in C, I thought this was a great opportunity to try out the pgrx framework and decided to integrate PRQL with PostgreSQL myself. The maintainers of both PRQL and pgrx were very nice to work with. Thanks guys.
2024 · github.com
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Postgres as a VectorDB GUI▲162
2024 · github.com
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Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres▲382
2018 · github.com
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pg_netstat, a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic▲158
pg_netstat is a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic. It uses libpcap to capture packets and aggregates at user-specified interval.
2022 · github.com
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Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno▲257
2022 · github.com
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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
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Hasura GraphQL Engine▲133
Instant Realtime GraphQL on Postgres
2018
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Hyperquery▲255
Data notebook built for speed, visibility, and collaboration
2023
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SQL Polyglot▲53
Try running a query anywhere from PostgreSQL to DuckDB without leaving your browser.
2023 · codapi.org
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Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server▲167
Hey HN, I built pg-mcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for PostgreSQL that provides structured schema inspection and query execution for LLMs and agents. It's multi-tenant and runs over HTTP/SSE (not stdio) Features - Supports multiple database connections from multiple agents - Schema Introspection: Returns table structures, types, indexes and constraints; enriched with descriptions from pg_catalog. (for well documented databases) - Read-Only Queries: Controlled execution of queries via MCP. - EXPLAIN Tool: Helps smart agents optimize queries before execution. - Extension…
2025 · github.com
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pg_plan_guarantee – Postgres Query Optimizer Hints, on Steroids.▲46
2022 · github.com
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DoltgreSQL – Version-Controlled DB, Like Git and PostgreSQL had a baby▲162
From the company behind Dolt—the world's first fully versioned database—comes DoltgreSQL, which implements PostgreSQL's variant of SQL. DoltgreSQL is at a very early stage, and we have quite a lot of work left to do, but we'd love to hear all thoughts and opinions! You can read more in the announcement blog post: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-11-01-announcing-doltgresq...
2023 · github.com
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Que, a Ruby-PostgreSQL job queue with ~20x the throughput of DelayedJob▲6
Hi everyone - I wrote a job queue called Que, which uses Postgres' advisory locks to manage jobs very efficiently. My goal is to make it easy to cover jobs with the same ACID guarantees as the rest of your data. It won't be as fast as a dedicated or Redis-backed queue, but I expect it will be fast enough for many use-cases. https://github.com/chanks/que The 20x figure comes from a benchmark I ran on an AWS c3.8xlarge instance - this number will change depending on your hardware. The code for the benchmark (and some more detailed results) is here:…
2013
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Inquery (YC W23) – Real-time events for Postgres▲23
Hi HN, we're excited to share our open source tool with the community! Inquery is a utility for Postgres that triggers webhooks when rows are inserted, updated, or deleted. It uses database triggers that send low-latency websocket messages to a Go application. This application then calls any configured webhooks with a JSON payload that includes specified values from the database row. Let us know if you have any feedback or questions!
2023 · github.com

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