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24 alternatives to Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution

Vectorized executor to speed up PostgreSQL. Contribute to citusdata/postgres_vectorization_test development by creating an account on GitHub.

This project is a vectorized executor designed to improve PostgreSQL's performance by processing data in batches rather than row-by-row. It is intended for developers and database administrators working with PostgreSQL… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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

    2019 · github.com · 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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    Vectorize▲246

    Build RAG pipelines that are optimized for your data.

    2024 · vectorize.io · its alternatives →

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    A high-performance observability data pipeline. Contribute to vectordotdev/vector development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Citus▲121

    Turn Postgres into a scale-out distributed database

    2016 · citusdata.com · its alternatives →

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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.

    2019 · pgmustard.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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    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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    PostgreSQL pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover support. - postgresml/pgcat

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A look at modern database approaches and how Citus scales PG

    2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

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    Scalable, Low-latency and Hybrid-enabled Vector Search in Postgres. Revolutionize Vector Search, not Database. - tensorchord/pgvecto.rs

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    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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    Hey HN - this is Alexander from Hatchet. We’re building an open-source platform for managing background tasks, using Postgres as the underlying database. Just over a year ago, we launched Hatchet as a distributed task queue built on top of Postgres with a 100% MIT license (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136). The feedback and response we got from the HN community was overwhelming. In the first month after launching, we processed about 20k tasks on the platform — today, we’re processing over 20k tasks per minute (>1 billion per month). Scaling up this quickly was…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Zero-config semantic search for any PostgreSQL database. pip install pgsemantic, three commands, done - varmabudharaju/pgsemantic

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we’re Robert, Din and Temirlan from Laminar (https://www.lmnr.ai), an open-source observability and analytics platform for complex LLM apps. It’s designed to be fast, reliable, and scalable. The stack is RabbitMQ for message queues, Postgres for storage, Clickhouse for analytics, Qdrant for semantic search - all powered by Rust. How is Laminar different from the swarm of other “LLM observability” platforms? On the observability part, we’re focused on handling full execution traces, not just LLM calls. We built a Rust ingestor for OpenTelemetry (Otel) spans with GenAI…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Non-interactive PostgreSQL query tool. Contribute to soheilpro/pgcmd development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    jpgAgent - A PostgreSQL job scheduler. Contribute to GoSimpleLLC/jpgAgent development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Serverless vector database for AI and LLMs

    2024 · upstash.com · its alternatives →

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    Postgres extension that speeds up analytics queries by upto 90% - sushrut141/pg_analytica

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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