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24 alternatives to Pgrust, Postgres in Rust (passing 100% of Postgres regression tests)

pgrust is a PostgreSQL rewrite in Rust I've been working on with my friend Jason. It now passes 100% of PostgreSQL's regression tests and we were even able to boot pgrust off an existing PostgreSQL 18.3 data directory. You can hack on its code or try it out quickly with the WASM build on pgrust.com. It's not production ready yet. I haven't focused on performance optimized yet and it's not compatible with existing PostgreSQL extensions. I want to improve upon Postgres in many ways in the future. I wrote about some here [0], and Jason and I saw a great talk in person at PGConf.dev a month ago…

Pgrust is a PostgreSQL database rewritten in Rust that passes all of PostgreSQL's regression tests and can load existing PostgreSQL data directories. Built for developers interested in exploring an alternative SQL… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    A high-performance Postgres replication engine written in Rust. Embed it in your Rust application or run it as a standalone binary. - supabase/etl

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    Hey, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript/JavaScript client library, that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It's 3mb Gzipped, now has support for many Postgres extensions, including pgvector, and it has a reactive "live query" API. It's also fast, with CRUD style queries executing in under 0.3 ms, and larger, multi-row select queries occurring within a fraction of a single frame. PGlite started as an experimental project we shared on X, and the…

    2024 · pglite.dev · its alternatives →

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    In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests. Contribute to hexclave/pgmock development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Originally inspired by pg_regress, pg_yregress provides a TAP-compatible test executor that allows for better test organization, easier instance management, native JSON handling and so on.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    The in-browser Postgres sandbox with AI assistance

    2024 · database.build · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I'm the creator of @pg-nano/pg-parser. I'm using it in pg-nano[1] to statically analyze Postgres schemas spread across multiple SQL files for a couple of reasons: 1. Each CREATE statement needs to be in topological order, so pg-nano's dev command can execute them without issue. 2. pg-nano has a plugin system like Vite that allows SQL generation based on the parsed schema. Probably to the surprise of no one, working with an untyped AST feels like you're back in the days of JavaScript, because well... you are. Most of you know by now just how great TypeScript and static types in…

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    It's time we talked about something many developers, data analysts, and even web application servers are guilty of: downgrading PostgreSQL connection security. Too often, we see connections dropped from full TLS verification to "any TLS" (i.e., sslmode=require) or, even worse, plain text connections. Why? Because most cloud providers, like AWS or Google Cloud SQL, use non-public Certificate Authorities for PostgreSQL. The result? Unverified TLS connections because no one has time to set up all devices across an organization to trust custom certificate authorities. And here's the most…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab development by creating an account on GitHub.

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    Powerful PostgreSQL tool is now open source for self-hosting

    2021 · supabase.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support. - postgresml/pgcat

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A flamegraph generator for Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE output. - mgartner/pg_flame

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    PgDog▲227

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    Jul 2026 · pgdog.dev · its alternatives →

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    Easy postgres codebase injection - aka postgres non data live reload - oelmekki/pgrebase

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    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.

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    PeerDB▲110

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    QoreDB▲95

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    Hands-on tutorials to learn Postgres

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    pgMustard is a Postgres EXPLAIN visualisation tool that also gives performance advice, scored based on its potential to speed up your query.

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