PgDog
Scale PostgreSQL without changing your app
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PgDog is an open source connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. It's Postgres-compliant, fast, secure and built in the open by a community of database engineers.
PH · launched Jul 14, 2026 · 227 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views
Niche: database management systems and engines · 162 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Database
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Could you build this?
No Building a high-throughput, wire-compatible Postgres proxy that handles transaction pooling, replication lag detection, and SQL-level sharding requires deep database kernel engineering in systems languages like Rust or C.
What it would actually take: It requires implementing the PostgreSQL frontend/backend wire protocol from scratch in Rust/C using asynchronous runtimes like Tokio. The complex core includes integrating Postgres's raw C parser (via `pg_query`), safely multiplexing client session state across transient server connections without breaking prepared statements/advisory locks, and distributed query execution planning across multiple shards.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 134 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 135 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 236 days after the earliest competitor.
- PgDog · hn · 2026-02-23 · 326 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- pgquery · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Pgrust, Postgres in Rust (passing 100% of Postgres regression tests) · hn · 2026-06-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- shahrah · github · 2026-09-27 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- pg_pinecone · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Railyard · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- pg_grpc · hn · 2026-04-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- pginsights · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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